The circular economy: Great on paper, but can it be made to work in practice?

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The circular economy presents infrastructure firms with significant challenges, but, as Robert Spencer argues, there are new approaches available that will boost resource efficiency

The construction industry demands much of the world's natural resources and generates huge amounts of waste, so it is no wonder that policy makers and industry experts are searching for new approaches...

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