New book! Circular Economy: Recent Trends in Global Perspective

Recently published by Springer, Singapore the new book by Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Sannidhya Kumar Ghosh (eds.): Circular Economy: Recent Trends in Global Perspective, provides detailed description of the concept of circular economy covering international case studies from across the world with chapters written by experts and active researchers in the field.

The chapter A Transition Towards the Circular Economy in Slovenia by Lavtizar V., Kos I., Godina Košir L., Bavcon Kralj M., Trebše P., deep dives into the circular economy journey of one of the european CE frontrunners – Slovenia.

It provides a description of the most recent and fundamental legislative frameworks for circular economy (CE) - A roadmap towards the circular economy in Slovenia and other developed action plans and strategies that have a great potential to further enhance the transition. Several CE-related indicators are presented. Data on generation and recycling of waste—all waste, municipal waste, and other waste fractions, for example, packaging, e-waste, biowaste, and more, as well as data on Slovenian resource productivity, the use of secondary raw materials, eco-innovation, and environmental performance of Slovenian SME, and the further insights of challenges, Slovenia’s priority areas, and opportunities for circularity are provided. Introduced are concrete CE case studies in areas of manufacturing industry, agriculture and forestry, food systems, mobility, and education, and the measures for circularity taken by two Slovenian frontrunner cities—Ljubljana and Maribor.

The chapter concludes by a look into the future on the grounds of current ongoing projects, set strategies, action plans, and visions for circular transition in Slovenia.

The book and the chapter are available for download or hardcover purchase at Springer.