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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责任修复：修补循环经济价值链


在呼吁推动当今塑料废物危机的企业承担更大责任的呼声中，再生塑料价值链正在协同构建。由此产生的“责任修复”将新的安排固定在线性生产过程中，提供了一种将线性过程推向循环的机制，同时开始修补当代资本主义生产和消费体系中与废物捡拾工作相关的一些社会和经济不公正现象。 。这项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。