Approximately five years after the European Union drew up an action plan for turning itself into a circular economy, it has – at least at the EU level – started a transition to a system of the three Rs: Reduce, recycle, reuse. Across Europe, a long process of “closing the loop” of product lifecycles has started through big increases in recycling and the reuse of materials to bring benefits to both the environment and the economy. According to the European Commission, the EU executive, a ci...