linear economy. Circular economy is created as a
system that there will be no more items or things
which are going to be wasted. With circular economy,
resources are used as long as possible. Circular
economy gives the access to extricate the maximum
amount of outputs, recover and reuse the output to
the very end and waste are minimized.
Back then, traditional linear economy is as
simple as make, use and dispose. Goods are used
until the maximum of the service and it will be
thrown away. This destroys almost all of the value in
the items. Those items could be saved and reused. If
this system keeps going on, the ocean will be an ocean
of waste with all types of garbage and goods that can
be recycled. The aquatic creatures will extinct as their
habitat are polluted. With the number of population is
getting higher, circular economy is seen to be a wiser
idea and way to use and recycle the mother Earth’s
limited resources.
Circular economy focuses on two things which
is the economic development and the protection of
the environment. It reduces the cost of production
and the resources process where it can minimize the
impact and effects due to the uncontrolled waste. To
make the system works, companies and factories need
to reduce the amount of natural resources. Circular
economy are used by some of the developed countries
such as China, Singapore, United States of America,
United Kingdom, Iceland, Sweden, Germany and
Japan. However, circular economy is not just about
recycling. It is more about the original value. The
recycled item need to have refurbishment, longer
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utilization and secondary-life uses. These are the
terms that have a lot more of value than just recycling.
On December 2015, 195 had agree on the Paris
Agreement on reducing global greenhouse gas
emissions. The Paris Agreement is a success itself due
to the mission and goals of this agreement - to keep
the Earth temperature stable due to climate change
that is happening rigorously these days. However,
it needs a lot of cooperation and effort by each and
every one of the people in these mother land in order
to achieve those goals.
According to Anders Wijkman in a 2015
study report, The Circular Economy and Benefits
for Society, circular economy can help to reduce the
global greenhouse gas emissions by almost 70% if a
policy were made. As a principle, circular economy
can encourage the system of recycling and reusing
items through refurbishment and improvement.
Imagine if every car engines’ in this world was
reused, repaired and can be used for long period of
time, it would definitely reduce the amount of carbon
footprint.
Carbon footprint is a phrase that has been
circulated around for some time, but do we really
know what does it means? Carbon is a symbolic for
all the different greenhouse gases that contribute to
global warming. And footprint is an analogy for the
total impact that something has. Together, carbon
footprint is defined as a description of the best
estimate that we can get of the full climate change
impact of something. This leads to the mathematically
definition; the total amount of greenhouse gases
produced directly and indirectly to s upport human
activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of
carbon dioxide (CO2e). Or in easier term, carbon
footprint is the indication of the amount of carbon
emissions that one produced.
Carbon footprint are produced by everything.
And by everything, it includes from the Iraq war to
bananas. A book written by Mike Bernes-Lee, titled
How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of
Everything explains how carbon is emitted from each
of single existence in Earth. For example, Iraq war has
caused 250-600 million tons CO2e since 2003 through
the modern armed forces activities – emissions that
may bequeath towards human harms well beyond the
battlefield. A spam email produced 0.3g CO2e while