Legal challenges of the green economy 4.0

The research project highlights the need to improve a synergic action encouraging a concrete implementation of a well-identified pathway tracing back to the green economy and corresponding to the virtuous process that, starting from production and consumption, comes to an “outcome” generically defined waste and, furthermore, recycling or reusing converts it into energy or in secondary raw material. If consumption has always been thought of as hierarchically subordinate to production, - since deciding what to produce also included what to consume -, nowadays, , increasingly influences production’s choices, generating an abnormal and growing amount of waste. In a global scenario in which environmental policy is oriented in achieving sustainable development for current and future generations, the common tendency aims to limit the waste of raw materials as much as possible and to reduce pollution and its environmental impact by addressing proper waste management. Therefore, Economy, Law and Environment must be no longer considered on linear correlations, but rather as parts of an unavoidable circular relationship; indeed, the business ecosystem is inserted within a natural ecosystem whose resources and services, it can enjoy respecting the rules of operation and the physical, biological climatic limits to ensure future survival.