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Megatrends One Year Later – #8: The Circular Economy – What I Predicted, and What's Actually Happening
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| Type | article |
| Author | Jim Carroll |
| Publisher | JimCarroll.com |
| Date | 2026-08-14 |
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TrendsThe Circular EconomyProducts and materials are being redesigned around reuse, recovery, remanufacturing and reduced waste rather than a one-way take-make-discard model.SignalsOne Year Later: The Circular EconomyOne year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #8: The Circular Economy as part of my 30 Megatrends series. Time to grade myself.CollectionsThe Foresight ArchiveA dated record of what Jim Carroll said, when he said it, and how those ideas connect to what followed.DomainsCircular Economy & ResourcesResource stewardship, reuse, recovery and the redesign of products and systems around circular flows rather than linear waste.