The pattern
Circularity is often presented as an object: a chair made from waste, a brick made from leftovers, a bottle made again.
The harder version is relational. It asks who is close enough, trusted enough and organised enough for one person’s surplus to become somebody else’s input.
Field notes
BlueCity
A building puts circular entrepreneurs close enough to trade knowledge, materials and opportunities.
ReTuna
Municipal waste intake and ordinary retail are physically connected.
Kalundborg Symbiosis
Industrial companies exchange real water, energy and material streams through long-term partnerships.
RecoLab
Water, waste and energy utilities cooperate around streams that conventional sewers mix together.
Schoonschip
Shared energy, mobility and sanitation turn households into a neighbourhood-scale system.
Yogawiser read
The circular economy begins to look less like better recycling and more like better relationships.