Why Form 8655 Circular 2024

Divide this text into sentences and correct mistakes: 1. Applause, hi! Thank you very much for having me. I'm gonna talk to you this morning and tell you a little story, a story that's going to travel a little bit from the past up to where we are now and have a little glimpse into the future. 2. In that, I'm gonna talk about some transformative ideas, specifically something that we call the circular economy, and try to explain to you what that actually is. 3. But my story starts back in the 1940s in Ireland, actually, because that's when my dad grew up. The bedtime stories I would hear as a child in the 1980s were from him, telling me about boyhood adventures set back in rural County Limerick in the 1940s. 4. It was a very different time back then, you know, where people were a lot more resourceful. I think they didn't have very much, but what they did have was precious to them, it was valuable, and they didn't waste anything. 5. So, whether it was food or clothing or household appliances, things were actually built to last, and if they did break, they were built in such a way that they could be repaired so their usage could continue on. 6. So from that resourceful time and me lying in bed as a seven-year-old child listening to a story set back then, I would contemplate how much things had changed in that time. 7. I was a little bit jealous because my dad had lived through all these changes where now suddenly there were cars in every driveway, there were telephones plugged in in the hallway downstairs, people had even walked on the moon. 8. I remember him laughing at me one night because I was...