California Moves Closer to a “Circular Economy”

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed five new bills into law, each mandating advancements in product packaging, labeling, recycling and waste reduction. The Instagram presentation linked above provides more information.

These new laws are part of what is called a “circular economy,” where the waste of one process becomes the feedstock for the next.  Biologists have known for decades that this is the way nature operates.  The output of every single biological process becomes the “food” for something else.  Waste does not accumulate, simply because there is none.

Humankind will never implement a perfectly circular economy, but we can get much closer to it than where we are now.