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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Front. Sustain.</journal-id>
<journal-title>Frontiers in Sustainability</journal-title>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3389/frsus.2022.1128185</article-id>
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<subject>Sustainability</subject>
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<subject>Retraction</subject>
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<article-title>Retraction: Engaging the citizen in the circular economy: Transcending the passive consumer role</article-title>
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<fn fn-type="edited-by"><p>Approved by: Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece</p></fn>
<corresp id="c001">&#x0002A;Correspondence: Frontiers Editorial Office &#x02709; <email>editorial.office&#x00040;frontiersin.org</email></corresp>
<fn fn-type="other" id="fn001"><p>This article was submitted to Circular Economy, a section of the journal Frontiers in Sustainability</p></fn></author-notes>
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<day>25</day>
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<year>2023</year>
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<year>2022</year>
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<day>20</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2022</year>
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<day>20</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2022</year>
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<related-article id="RA1" related-article-type="retracted-article" journal-id="Front. Sustain." journal-id-type="nlm-ta" vol="3" page="980047" xlink:href="10.3389/frsus.2022.980047" ext-link-type="doi">A Retraction of the Perspective Article <article-title>Engaging the citizen in the circular economy: Transcending the passive consumer role</article-title> by Milios, L. (2022). <italic>Front. Sustain</italic>. 3:980047. doi: <object-id>10.3389/frsus.2022.980047</object-id></related-article>
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<p>The journal retracts the 17 August 2022 article cited above.</p>
<p>A complaint was filed to our office stating that parts of the article cited above had been copied without permission from third-party sources. An investigation, conducted in accordance with Frontiers policies, confirmed the statement of complaint. The article is therefore retracted.</p>
<p>This retraction was approved by the Chief Editors of Frontiers in Sustainability and the Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers. The author agrees with this retraction.</p>
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