Vol.3— What have we lost in the pursuit of economic growth? — We’ve grown used to a world where “buy and throw away” is the norm. But the hidden costs of this system are deeper—and more quietly devastating—than we may realize. ■ Introduction: Confronting the “Other Side” of
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Vol.2―Introduction: The Question Before the Circular Economy In recent years—especially in discussions about the circular economy and moving beyond mass consumption—a certain reflective question has begun to emerge: Why have we built a society so deeply predicated on “throwing things away”? To face this question, we
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Vol.1 — What Is the Circular Economy? The Key Difference from the Linear Model From “throw away” to “create value.” Why question the very idea of “throwing away”? “It’s normal to discard things once we’re done using them.” This mindset is deeply embedded in our everyday lives. Buy
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0:00 /0:52 1× A boy holding a broken “Made in Japan” toy— that was where our journey began. In 1995, as a young backpacker wandering through Calcutta, I found myself among children living on towering garbage mountains. One boy clutched a broken Japanese toy as if it were
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