Circular economy and reducing consumption from a decolonial approach/Economía circular y reducción del consumo desde el enfoque decolonial

Reflection paper, which from the decolonial perspective, understood as the detachment of the westerners' epistemologies, raises the alternative proposal of the Circular Economy (CE) and reducing consumption, in which compensation is claimed for the environmental damage generated by consumerism and the exploitation of natural resources in the past 30 years. The CE assumes the cyclical structure of nature, to generate a model for the use of ecosystem resources and to bring industrial production to the bare minimum by including the reuse of inputs that, due to their characteristics, should not return to the environment. The methodology used consisted of a conceptual review based on 30 documents published between 1990 and 2020. For the bibliographic search, academic databases were used. In addition, for the co-occurrence relationships by semantic link, the BibExcel software was used and, for the visualization of semantic communities, the Gephi program. It is concluded that strategies must be designed to strengthen the alternative proposal to reduce consumption, within the framework of globalized markets embedded in the guidelines of a circular economy. Keywords: Decoloniality; Consumerism; Circular economy; Sustainability; Recycling 8R. Articulo de reflexion que, desde la perspectiva decolonial, entendida como el desprendimiento de las epistemologias occidentales, plantea la propuesta alternativa de la Economia Circular (EC) y la reduccion del consumo, en la que se reclama la compensacion ante el daA? ambiental generado por el consumismo y la explotacion de los recursos naturales en los ultimos 30 aA?s. La economia circular asume la estructura ciclica de la naturaleza, para generar un modelo de aprovechamiento de recursos ecosistemicos, para llevar la produccion industrial al minimo indispensable, incluyendo la reutilizacion de los insumos que por sus caracteristicas no deben retornar al medio ambiente. La metodologia utilizada consistio en una revision conceptual a partir de 30 documentos publicados entre 1990 y 2020. Para la busqueda bibliografica se utilizaron bases de datos academicas, ademas, para las relaciones de co-ocurrencia por vinculo semantico se utilizo el software BibExcel, y para la visualizacion de las comunidades semanticas el programa Gephi. Se concluye que deben diseA?rse estrategias para fortalecer la propuesta alternativa de reduccion del consumo, en el marco de los mercados globalizados, dentro de los lineamientos de una economia circular