"This is a book about circular economy (CE) and the fourth industrial revolution (IND 4.0), about their interlinkage and the way their interaction will determine the future of our planet, as the authors of this book assert. Despite the many on-going discussions on both the circular economy and...

In the second half of the 20th century we got better at extracting the earth's resources. Much better. So much better in fact, that for 40 years, despite demand for natural resources growing, the cost of those resources decreased. Not anymore. Since 2000, prices for the world's natural resources...

Abfall war gestern, ab sofort gibt es nur noch Nährstoffe. Alle Produkte verbleiben in einem steten Kreislauf, eingesetzt werden nur noch gesunde, unbedenkliche Materialien. Was wie eine Vision aus einer fernen Zukunft klingt, ist vielerorts bereits Realität, und das Konzept hat einen Namen:...