The Circular Economy is an economic master plan that recommends ingenious ways of modifying the perennial and prevailing linear system of consumption into a circular one. The nascent Circular Economy and Systems Thinking is the new approach to attaining sustainable development. This ensures that people have continuous resources such as energy, water, food and health whilst not compromising the ability of future generations in achieving their basic requirements (Raworth, 2012; U.N, 1987).
Unfortunately, the present system is antithetical for businesses, people or the environment, as it consists of resources being extracted from the ground to make products beyond what is required, after which consumers dispose of what they no longer require, or desire, is discarded to landfills. Consequently, we need to explore how a nexus between Circular Economy and Systems Thinking may provide the basis for a paradigm shift from a linear economy to a circular one.
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