Disruptive Concepts to Close the Loop: How Startups Drive the Circular Plastics Economy
摘要
Startups are in principle challengers of existing business models. This is even more true for the very dynamic development within the area of the circular plastics economy. For this reason, this chapter uses the new circular value chain to present startups that are questioning todays’ practice. Of course, thousands of startups have been founded in recent years. Here, we tried to select representative initiatives following the R-strategies of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).