The circular economy offers Australia the opportunity to generate $1,860 billion in direct economic benefits over twenty years and save 165 million tonnes of CO2 per year by 2040, finds a new report from PwC Australia.
Building a more circular economy explores the opportunity for Australia to adopt the concept of a circular economy, offering a robust and holistic framework for sustainable growth. This involves creating closed-loop material cycles across the production and consumption value chain, and treating waste as a leakage of value to be avoided rather than dismissed.
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