The world's global population of just over eight billion... uses nearly two planets worth of resources a year.
Organised and wide-scale recovery, recycling and reuse of those resources instead of throwing them away is known as 'circularity'.
Banks, big consultancies and universities are backing Bega in New South Wales to have Australia's first regional circular economy.
It starts with chooks, includes wood waste and whey, sea urchins and shells and ends with household green waste.
And it's all good for farming.
Landline's Pip Courtney reports.
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