Rob Opsomer News Today

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In addition to that, 4.25 billion single use pieces of cutlery — the vast majority of which are plastic — are also used. disposable coffee cups have been a long standing problem — the uk throws away two and half billion of those every year. rob opsomer is from the ellen macarthur foundation, which aims to promote what it calls a circular�* economy. he explained how it works. so what we mean by circular economy, the easiest way to explain it is we look at our current economic model works....

More now on the plan to reduce single—use plastics. joining me now is rob opsomer from the ellen macarthur foundation, which aims to promote what it calls a �*circular�* economy. what do you mean by a circular economy? what we mean by a circular economy? what we mean by a circular economy is the easiest way to explain it is to look first at how our current economy works. we take resources out of the ground, we make products and we throw them away. circular economy is about turning it into ...