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Cleaner production and circular economy create value through different but complementary mechanisms. Cleaner production starts inside the process and seeks prevention, efficiency, and reduced losses. Circular economy starts with the wider value cycle and seeks to preserve product and material value through repeated use and regeneration. The first is often fastest to pilot because it can use existing operational systems; the second can create larger strategic change but depends more heavily on design, customers, suppliers, standards, and reverse logistics.