Kuala Lampur, Dec. 23 -- For decades, we've operated under the industrial era's guiding principle: take, make, dispose.

This linear economy has delivered immense wealth, but at a catastrophic cost, leaving us buried in waste and choking on our own emissions.

The alternative, the circular economy, has often been dismissed as a niche concept for idealists-a fancy term for recycling.

But a pivotal new analysis by researchers Rashid and Malik, published in Springer's Renewable Energy in Circular Economy, shatters this misconception.

Their findings reveal that the transition to a circular economy is not a peripheral environmental goal; it is the core of the next great economic transformation, and it is powered by a fundamental alliance wit...