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The circular economy – the newest magical word in the sustainable development vocabulary – promises economic growth without environmental destruction or waste. However, growth makes a circular economy impossible, even if we recycle all raw materials and all recycling is 100% efficient. No technology can change that because it’s not a technological problem. In addition, many modern products are too complex to recycle.
In this series of articles, LOW←TECH MAGAZINE explores how the circularity of various technologies like bicycles, solar panels, and wind turbines evolves. Placing the recycling of resources in a historical context makes clear that we are not moving toward a circular economy but rather increasingly away from it.
Contents table:
- How circular is the circular economy?
- Can we make bicycles sustainable again?
- Plastic waste in the fuel tank?
- Recycling animal and human manure is the key to sustainable farming
- How to make wind power sustainable again?
- Reinventing the small wind turbine
- How to build a low-tech solar panel?
- How to escape from the Iron Age?
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Other books in the series:
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How to build a low-tech internet?, Kris De Decker, Roel Roscam Abbing, Marie Otsuka, 2023. Ebook edition.
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How to downsize a transport network?, Kris De Decker, 2023. Ebook edition.
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Heating people not spaces, Kris De Decker, 2024. Ebook edition
The Low-tech Magazine archives are also available as a chronological series consisting of four volumes.