The circular economy is a production and consumption model that involves sharing, lending, reusing, repairing, and recycling existing materials and products for as long as possible.
This extends the life span of products as much as possible, helping to minimize waste. In fact, once the product has completed its function, the materials of which it is made are fed back into the economic cycle as much as possible. The principles of the circular economy contrast with the traditional linear economic model, based instead on the typical "extract, produce, use and throw away" pattern.
