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''Cognitive bias''.
In a circular economy, the value of products and materials is maintained for as long as possible.  


Choice supporting bias is an unconscious cognitive bias.
Waste and resource use are minimised, and when a product reaches the end of its life, it is used again to create further value.


It leads to characterising past decisions as good decisions.
<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Doomed to repeat'''''</span>
:"We tend to remember our decisions as better than they were, excluding from memory events or effects that were less positive.
:We are then doomed to repeat poor decisions."
:''The Treasurer magazine, December 2018 / January 2019, p41 - Dr Pete Jones, Chartered Psychologist.''


Ideally, the second and subsequent lives of products are designed into them from the outset.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Affinity bias]]
* [[Ecycling]]
* [[Bandwagon bias]]
* [[Recommerce]]
* [[Behavioural economics]]
* [[Sustainability]]
* [[Cognitive bias]]
* [[Upcycling]]
* [[Confirmation bias]]
* [[Diversity]]
* [[Dunning-Kruger effect]]
* [[Emotional intelligence]]
* [[Impostor syndrome]]
* [[Objectivity]]
* [[Optimism bias]]
* [[Reactance bias]]
* [[Self-investment bias]]
* [[Social bias]]
* [[Source bias]]
 
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Revision as of 20:45, 1 May 2018

In a circular economy, the value of products and materials is maintained for as long as possible.

Waste and resource use are minimised, and when a product reaches the end of its life, it is used again to create further value.


Ideally, the second and subsequent lives of products are designed into them from the outset.


See also