Environment › Waste and circular economy
Circular economy and resource efficiency
Using materials more than once: sector action plans, producer duties for tyres, oil and old vehicles, scrappage and repair, industrial residues in roads and buildings, and green procurement. Prelims has asked about the uses of steel slag and what a circular economy reduces.
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2025: what a circular economy reduces
No subject here changed from 16 to 31 August 2026.Show all
Also filed elsewhere
- Extended Producer Responsibility · on E-waste, battery and hazardous waste
The instrument that makes anyone pay for a product once it is thrown away is Extended Producer Responsibility, which moves that cost from the municipality to the producer.