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Beyond this, progressive companies often privately signal the need for fi scal
intervention, and ways to make secondary resources more cost effective than primary resources, but rarely make these calls in public. The circular economy debate
needs to move from being one that augments and energises the recycling debate of
the past 30 years, to being about how national economies should be constructed to
meet the challenges of the next 30 years. This means involving fi nance in all its
forms: the fi nance industry (which will provide the capital for circular economy
infrastructure); Chief Financial Offi cers of companies, who will be persuaded of the
monetary benefi ts and new opportunities presented by circular business models;
and, most crucially, those in fi nance ministries who set the framework for businesses through fi scal policy.
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
Noncommercial License, which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Benton, D., & Hazell, J. (2013). Resource resilient UK (Circular economy task force). London:
Green Alliance.
Defra. (2012). Resource Security Action plan . London: HM Government.
DOENI (2014). The road to zero waste – The waste prevention programme for Northern Ireland .
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Proceedings of the ICE – Waste and Resource Management , 168 (1), 3–13.
13 Circular Economy and the Policy Landscape in the UK
Beyond this, progressive companies often privately signal the need for fi scal
intervention, and ways to make secondary resources more cost effective than primary resources, but rarely make these calls in public. The circular economy debate
needs to move from being one that augments and energises the recycling debate of
the past 30 years, to being about how national economies should be constructed to
meet the challenges of the next 30 years. This means involving fi nance in all its
forms: the fi nance industry (which will provide the capital for circular economy
infrastructure); Chief Financial Offi cers of companies, who will be persuaded of the
monetary benefi ts and new opportunities presented by circular business models;
and, most crucially, those in fi nance ministries who set the framework for businesses through fi scal policy.
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
Noncommercial License, which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
References
Benton, D. (2015). Circular economy Scotland . London: Green Alliance.
Benton, D., & Hazell, J. (2013). Resource resilient UK (Circular economy task force). London:
Green Alliance.
Defra. (2012). Resource Security Action plan . London: HM Government.
DOENI (2014). The road to zero waste – The waste prevention programme for Northern Ireland .
Belfast, Ireland.
EC. (2008). Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19th
November 2008 on waste and repealing certain directives. E. Commission . Brussels: European
Commission.
EC. (2011a). Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the
European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. A resourceeffi cient Europe – Flagship initiative under the Europe 2020 strategy . Brussels: European
Commission.
EC. (2011b). The roadmap to a resource effi cient Europe . Brussels: European Commission.
EC. (2014a, October 8, 2013). Defi ning ‘critical’ raw materials . Retrieved February 24, 2015,
from http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/raw-materials/critical/index_en.htm
EC. (2014b). Integrated product policy . Retrieved February 24, 2015, from http://ec.europa.eu/
environment/ipp/home.htm
EC. (2014c). Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, The
European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Towards a circular economy: A zero waste programme for Europe . Brussels: European Commission.
EMF. (2013). Towards the circular economy . Ellen MacArthur Foundation Report No.1.
EREP. (2013). Action for a resource effi cient Europe . Brussels: European Commission. Retrieved
February 24, 2015, from http://ec.europa.eu/environment/resource_effi ciency/re_platform/
index_en.htm
Euroactive. (2015). Ministers want circular economy saved but back commission’s better regulation push . Retrieved February 24, 2015, from http://www.euractiv.com/sections/sustainabledev/ministers-want-circular-economy-saved-backcommissions- better-regulation
Green Alliance. (2015). Circular economy task force . Retrieved February 25, 2015, from http://
www.green-alliance.org.uk/CETF.php
Hill, J. (2014, October). The circular economy: From waste to resource stewardship, part I.
Proceedings of the ICE – Waste and Resource Management , 168 (1), 3–13.
13 Circular Economy and the Policy Landscape in the UK