Recycled plastics value chains are being collaboratively constructed amid calls for greater responsibility of the corporates driving today’s plastic waste crisis. The resulting ‘responsibility fix’ bolts new arrangements onto linear production processes, offering a mechanism to push linear processes towards circularity, while starting to patch up some of the social and economic injustices associated with waste-picking work within contemporary systems of capitalist production and consumption. This research draws upon semi-structured interviews to trace international collaborations within recycled plastics value chains to identify how new, low-disruption, circular business models are being built.

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责任解决：修补循环经济价值链


在推动当今塑料垃圾危机的企业承担更大责任的呼声中，正在合作构建再生塑料价值链。由此产生的“责任修复”将新的安排固定在线性生产流程上，提供了一种推动线性流程走向循环的机制，同时开始修补当代资本主义生产和消费体系中与废物收集工作相关的一些社会和经济不公正。本研究利用半结构化访谈来追踪再生塑料价值链内的国际合作，以确定如何建立新的、低干扰的循环商业模式。