Phonebloks have accelerated the talk about the circular economy, which is more appealing to me I think the shared economy because of the mental models might be easier to break into in our culture. The stigmas, or negative associations, surrounding "sharing" your possessions might be greater recycling them.
Some thought leaders:
James Greyson - http://blindspot.org.uk/
http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/
Andy Stanford-Clark - http://stanford-clark.com/
Joaseph Nicks was telling me about a millionaire lady from Asia who started recycling paper from landfills near LA. Zhang Yin is now one of the richest self-made women in the world. The waste that we have been producing for the past century has value, and there will be billion dollar industries created from our waste. The way our system is built right now is somewhat flawed:
“We define GDP so that extraction of non-renewable resources counts as production rather than depletion of natural capital stocks and so that medical care and funeral expenses caused by pollution-induced disease add to the GDP while the production of the pollution itself does not reduce it. (Cobb and Daly, 1989 for thoughtful discussion of alternative measures of economic welfare)” – p. 23, Business Dynamics, Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World, MIT Professor John D. Sterman
So we don't account for real value in our waste as well as not taking into account the costs of producing from natural resources. One more thing from Professor Sterman:
“Side effects are not a feature of reality but a sign that our understanding of the system is narrow and flawed.”
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