Responsibility fixes: patching up circular economy value chains
研究通过访谈追踪再生塑料价值链中的国际合作，揭示企业如何在保持低破坏性的同时，将线性生产转向循环，并修补与废品回收工作相关的社会和经济不公。
Abstract Recycled plastics value chains are being collaboratively constructed amid calls for greater responsibility of the corporates driving today’s plastic waste crisis. The resulting ‘responsibility fix’ bolts new arrangements onto linear production processes, offering a mechanism to push linear processes towards circularity, while starting to patch up some of the social and economic injustices associated with waste-picking work within contemporary systems of capitalist production and consumption. This research draws upon semi-structured interviews to trace international collaborations within recycled plastics value chains to identify how new, low-disruption, circular business models are being built.