Table 4.
State of the art system perspective of the transition towards a plastic circular economy.
| Circular Strategies (9R Framework) | Micro-system perspective |
Meso-system perspective |
Macro-system perspective |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material | Component | Product | Consumer | Businesses | Production Chain | Industrial Symbiosis | Eco-Industrial Park | City | Regional | National | Global | |
| Recover (R9) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - |
| Recycle (R8) | 31 | 6 | 35 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 8 |
| Repurpose (R7) | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Remanufacture (R6) | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Refurbish (R5) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Repair (R4) | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Reuse (R3) | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Reduce (R2) | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Rethink (R1) | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 |
| Refuse (R0) | 22 | 1 | 6 | 4 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |