Chapter 4: Supply Chain Management and the Circular Economy

There is currently significant purposeful activity attempting to link supply chains (SCs) with the circular economy (CE). A particularly positive aspect of this endeavour is that it identifies key strategic issues from behavioural change through to the potential symbiotic business activity within the CE. It is also possible to visualise the positive aspects of research in both sustainable production and consumption. This innovative research area was always destined to become more complex as the number of intricate and crucial relationships increased – in this situation, where the number of key stakeholders increases dramatically, it is often a good idea to take a holistic perspective on the whole enterprise: closed systems don’t work.