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What kickstarted the industrial revolution?
The steam engine
What is the organisation mentioned in the video?
Zero Waste Scotland
What is the circular economy?
An economic system that reuses, recycles, and reduces waste.
True or false. In nature, there is no concept of waste.
True
Who all should be involved in changing the system?
Businesses, governments, and individuals, our cities, our products, and our jobs.
What is a landfill?
A site for the disposal of waste materials, including municipal solid waste.
One solution to change the linear economy?
Design out waste and pollution
keep products and materials in use
Regenerate/improve the natural system/environment.
What is a linear economy?
A system in which people buy a product, use it, and then throw it away
The new report of Zero Waste Scotland aims to identify the ___________ that are stopping businesses from adopting circular practices at scale.
Barriers
L'expansion du portefeuille immobilier permet de réaliser des économies d'échelle. - Translate into english
Expanding our property portfolio enables us to achieve economies of scale.
Grammar. Conjugate the verb
Had more cities __________ (to enforce) circular economy policies, billions of tons of materials would have been saved.
enforced
This describes how decisions, ideas, or policies move from higher levels of authority to lower levels, and then feedback or implementation flows back up.
Top down to bottom up approach.
What is an example of circular economy?
Fixing an old phone
Pick the RIGHT option
We should study why these individual businesses are struggling to ________ in the market.
a. Gain traction
b. Achieve traction
c. Release traction
d. Traction.
Gain traction
Translate into english
Zero Waste Scotland est un intermédiaire entre le monde des entreprises et les décideurs publics.
Zero waste Scotland is an intermediary between business and policy.
A tipping point is?
a moment at which a change or effect becomes irreversible.
Translate into english -
Ces produits ont apporté à beaucoup d'entre nous un niveau de confort matériel inimaginable pour les générations précédentes.
These products have brought many of us levels of material comfort unimaginable to previous generations.
Why is the circular economy important?
It helps reduce waste and saves resources for the future.
The materials that are being reused today might __________ (discard) decades ago if recycling hadn’t become popular.
have been discarded
Turn into passive voice
In a circular economy, people see waste as a resource.
In a circular economy, waste is seen as a resource.
Translate into french : WTO Trade Ministers will meet in Geneva in late June to discuss a final deal on the current World Trade Round, which was kick-started in Doha in 2001.
Les ministres du Commerce de l'OMC se réuniront à Genève fin juin pour discuter d'un accord final sur le cycle actuel des négociations commerciales mondiales, qui a été lancé à Doha en 2001.
A level playing field is -
A state in which conditions in a competition or situation are fair for everyone.
What is the extra hurdle faced today in moving towards a circular economy?
The ecosystem report tells us that the conditions in our economy favour the linear economy more. They're geared more towards the linear economy.
What are some of the struggles that all businesses face in general irrespective of the type of economy?
Competition, uncertainty, risk and access to investment
What is a parallel economy?
An economic system that operates alongside the official (formal) economy, but outside full government regulation or control. for eg. black market, cash in hand work, cryptocurrency.