The circular economy model enables businesses to incorporate regenerative manufacturing systems that use closed-loop resources to achieve economic and environmental sustainability. The work focuses on the circular economy’s competitive advantage from the multinationals apparel industry’s...

Chapter 1:Confronting Our Shattered Society -- Chapter 2: Embracing the Circle of Wholeness -- Chapter 3: Polyphony as a System for Delivering Co-creation, Empowerment, Sustainability and Trust -- Chapter 4: Creating an Economy of Care -- Chapter 5: Universal Care – Including the Excluded --...

We outline the frameworks that shape and hold apart waste debates in and about the Global North and Global South and that hinder analysis of flows between them. Typically, waste is addressed as municipal waste, resulting in a focus on domestic consumption and urban governance and an emphasis on...