In the article, we critically confront the idea of waste-to-resource at the heart of the circular economy. We discuss some of the blind spots and shortcomings of three circular economy principles: designing out waste, emulating natural systems and decoupling economic growth from resource use. We suggest that their limitations are intimately connected to a scalar reasoning ruled by strict, disjunctive categories. Instead, we advance a flat, relational, trans-scalar approach and propose that the potential of a sustained circular economy promise requires a novel scalar imagination attentive to its multiple co-constituted spatialities, social relations and fluid materials.

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废物作为资源的局限性：对循环经济模式新标量想象的批评和主张

在本文中，我们批判性地讨论了循环经济核心的废物资源化理念。我们讨论了三个循环经济原则的一些盲点和缺点：设计消除废物、模仿自然系统以及将经济增长与资源利用脱钩。我们认为它们的局限性与严格的、析取范畴所统治的标量推理密切相关。相反，我们提出了一种扁平的、关系性的、跨标量的方法，并提出持续循环经济承诺的潜力需要一种新颖的标量想象力，关注其多重共同构成的空间、社会关系和流动材料。