Background history:

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During quarantine, I picked up an aquarium hobby and even began aquascaping, however my two goldfish: Cheeto Head and Boba proved to be poor choices when it came to having a planted tank. They chewed through any foliage I planted and their messy nature lead me to turn to aquaponics. Aquaponics is putting fish to work. It just so happens that the work those fish do (eating and producing waste), is the perfect fertilizer for growing plants. And man,  fish can grow a lot of plants when they get to work! (theaquaponicsource)

I would take the dirty water from my fishes' aquarium and use it water my garden. This proved to be the perfect hands on metaphor for understanding a circular economy. A circular economy is an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources. Circular systems employ reuse, sharing, repair, refurbishment, remanufacturing and recycling to create a closed-loop system, minimising the use of resource inputs and the creation of waste, pollution and carbon emissions.