The amount of recycled materials entering the world’s economies is slightly increasing and exceeds 7.3 billion tonnes, but, amid the rampant exploitation of virgin resources and raw materials, the global circularity metric continues to decline and reaches 6.9%, according to the 2025 Circularity Gap Report, conducted by Deloitte and Circle Economy Foundation. The imbalance is deepened by the fact that a significant amount of non-renewable virgin materials ends up in landfills as part of waste