L’economia circolare per riusare anche i saperi?

[Autom. eng. transl.] The circular economy must be placed three forms of resource use efficiency, it does not present 'paradigmatic' and radical novelties as a model of production and consumption but it can assume elements of innovation and systemic scale. The drivers are first and foremost to the European policies that they forced, and will still force the production / consumption system to keep waste and waste materials in circulation. They are also linked to the now large industrial capacity based on waste and waste input, and to the favorable cultural climate surrounding the circular economy. The circular economy will still expand driven by a general goal of 'zero landfill'. In Europe About 1.2 billion tons / year of waste landfilled are destined to be re-circulated to the production system as usable materials. The economic impacts can be net above all for innovative circular businesses at company level. When they involve complex inter-industrial systems on the meso- and macro-scale, the progress of circularity necessarily generates substitution effects that can reduce the net economic effects. The re-modeling of inter-industrial value chains, with effects of substitution and displacement of conventional business, can be the main economic effect. Precisely these effects are at the basis of the major expected net effects, which are those of the environment and the efficiency of use of natural resources. Italy already has a high degree of circularity in some value chains. The advantages of district structures in generating local circular economies have been known for some time and, in part, already learned. In Italy, the circular paradigm can be thought of for 'immaterial' productive resources, namely productive knowledge. Accelerated and 'disruptive' innovation, together with its great and essential economic benefits, presents the risk of breaking the circularity of reproduction of traditional productive knowledge, thus causing a loss of knowledge. Such cognitive resources risk becoming 'immaterial waste' and can instead acquire a great 'option value' if you think in terms of 'immaterial circularity'.