Feature(field of comparison) |
Linear economy |
Circular economy |
Purpose |
Profit maximization |
Social and ecological equation |
Economic capacity |
Increase |
Reduction |
Consumption |
Increase |
Reduction / increase of life time |
Resources |
Primary |
Implicative |
Result |
Waste accumulation |
No waste, emergence of new fields |
Type of production |
Labour-intensive |
High-tech, use of minor cycles, innovations |
Social partnership |
Force business to take social responsibility |
Initiative business responsibility |
Product life-cycle stages |
Maximum efficiency only at the beginning of the product lifecycle |
Maximum efficiency of every process within the product (service) lifecycle |
Technologies |
Nature exploitative |
Nature-like |