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wouldn't it be great if we just don't
have to really own a car or run a house
or own a phone what if we just use what
we need in the way we need it and then
when we no longer need it or when we
need something else we just change it
easily hello my name is tres Dominic I
work at UCL University College London
and I am co-director of UCL circular
economy lab economy that we have right
now is around taking resources consuming
them and then disposing them as waste
there's two main problems to the linear
economy one program is the amount of or
the volume of of resources that are
consumed and the energy that is used to
transform those resources into products
and the other problem is at the end of
the other end is the amount of waste
that is produced the idea of the of the
circular economy is to try to address
those two issues first reduce the amount
of resources that we struck from the
earth and the other one is to use those
resources more efficiently by creating
closer loops that maintain those
resources in the
cycles for longer rather than wasting
them my wife's phone is something that
we have everyone of us has one or
several phones and we use it everyday
all the time and if we look at mobile
phone within the linear economy the way
it works in CES buy a new phone we use
it for a period of time that in that
period of time is getting shorter and
shorter and then you change it because
you can you want to upgrade to a new
model but actually to produce that phone
you have extracted tones and tones of
materials they are very difficult to
strut and they are actually creating a
number of environmental issues along the
way if we look at the circular economy
what we will see a completely different
system first of all we wouldn't
necessarily have to buy a phone we might
leave the phone from the manufacturer
that forum will have been designed in a
way that could be easily repaired and
upgraded so you don't need to actually
change your mobile phone just because
you cannot upgrade it anymore so you
could easily upgrade to new technology
using your existing phone doesn't make
sense that we have a phone that we
cannot open and we cannot repair right
now products are not really designed to
be reused or remanufactured they are
designed to be used and then disposed of
so we need to rethink how do we design
products and we will design products
differently if we if we knew that those
credits were going to come back to us as
manufacturers and we could extract value
from them and create new products
I think we think in the whole design
system is very important this is really
key
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