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The circular economy as policy and practice: repair and reuse, scrappage, recycled materials, industrial residues put to use, and the forums where countries compare notes. Prelims has asked about the uses of steel slag and what a circular economy reduces.
Foundation note: Circular economy: the principles and India's instruments
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World Circular Economy Forum
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The World Circular Economy Forum is a meeting on the circular economy, organised by the Central Pollution Control Board with Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund.
- India launched the Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy Industry Coalition (RECEIC) during its Group of Twenty (G20) Presidency.
- It co-chairs the 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns (10YFP), the international machinery behind Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 on sustainable consumption and production.
- India's circular economy could be worth over 2 trillion US dollars by 2050.
What changed
13 Sep 2026
- India will host the World Circular Economy Forum at Gandhinagar, the first time it has met in South Asia.
Industrial residues in roads
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Steel slag is a residue a steelworks produces whether anyone wants it or not, and processed into the shape and strength of stone aggregate it can replace the quarried stone that road building consumes by the tonne.
- The technology comes from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research's Central Road Research Institute (CSIR-CRRI).
- Steel slag also goes into road bases, soil improvement and cement production.
What changed
12 Sep 2026
- A road laid with processed steel slag aggregate at Raigarh was recognised by Guinness World Records.
- CSIR-CRRI puts such a road at about 40 per cent cheaper to build and four times as strong as a conventional one.
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2020: uses of steel slag
Also filed elsewhere
- GOBARdhan · on Hydrogen and bioenergy
GOBARdhan, Galvanizing Organic Bio Agro Resources Dhan, began in 2018 under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) as a programme for turning cattle dung and farm waste into biogas and manure, and supply was first sought through SATAT, Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation, the 2018 scheme under which oil companies buy compressed biogas from private plants, which left more than 200 plants running.