A Circularity Indicator Tool for Measuring the Ecological Embeddedness of Manufacturing

Trollman, Hana; Colwill, James; Jagtap, Sandeep

doi:10.3390/su13168773

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“…The transition from the linear economy to the CE is increasingly imperative given the scarcity of virgin resources we face today, as well as the growing excess of waste with no apparent solution, but some countries are close, others are far away, and each starts from a different point, but all have a distance to go [1]. This is clearly a path towards sustainability, in which there are already authors [2] investigating tools to measure the path taken by some of these companies. This transition to CE has several possible paths, the most obvious being to make it a response to consumer desires, thus becoming yet another requirement for the quality of goods or services purchased, and assuming it as being a cultural imperative or society's legislature.…”

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The Consumer’s Role in the Transition to the Circular Economy: A State of the Art Based on a SLR with Bibliometric Analysis

Carreira,

Ferreira,

Ramos

2023

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Implementing the Circular Economy (CE) is largely a mirage. There are some political decisions translated into penalties and/or incentives to try to adjust the “optimal” level of circularity. The consumer’s desire to purchase circular products, given the increase in price associated with them, and the sum of associated fines and penalties, generates complex financial equations, which become unfavorable to the transition to the CE. CE-friendly solutions in use are associated with situations in which circularity contributes to lower production costs. The authors are committed to altering the course of events. They believe that the success of this transition will have the will of the consumer as its main vector. To this end, they launched an investigation that leads to clues on how, by identifying barriers, facilitators, and motivations, proposals for solutions that are focused on the consumer are designed. The research project started by surveying and systematically analyzing the existing published information, in order to reach the State of the Art. The path taken involved a systematic review of the literature and the consequent bibliometric analysis, fulfilling a methodology whose steps are not innovative, but whose relationship/sequencing of the same is insufficiently treated in the literature. As the most relevant results of the application of the proposed methodology to the subject under analysis, in addition to the recognition of a set of significant and guiding texts, explored as graphically as possible, the identification of relevant sub-themes stands out, as well as the framing of opportunities for future investigations. With this investigation, we conclude that the consumer is not the trigger for the transition from the linear economy to the CE.

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The Consumer’s Role in the Transition to the Circular Economy: A State of the Art Based on a SLR with Bibliometric Analysis

Carreira,

Ferreira,

Ramos

2023

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“…These models are within the emerging circular economy (CE) instead of traditional, linear, take-make-use-dispose manufacturing systems. Understanding the value chain's circular relationships can help manufacturers devise ecofriendly initiatives [2]. For this study, we adopt the following definition of the CE: "the set of organizational planning processes for creating, delivering products, components, and materials at their highest utility for customers and society through effective and efficient utilization of ecosystem, economic, and product cycles by closing loops for all the related resource flows" [3] (p. 859).…”

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Designing Value Chains for Industry 4.0 and a Circular Economy: A Review of the Literature

2022

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The growth of emerging digital technologies has led to premature and inconsistent conclusions about the relationship between circular economy and value chain activities. A structured, systematic review approach was used to examine the titles and abstracts of 912 papers from the circular economy and digital transformation, strategic management, and operations management literature. We looked at a relevant selection of 79 articles to develop a research agenda. The literature review helped identify strategic initiatives impacting the firm value chain’s redesign involving logistics capabilities, marketing, sales, and service. Outcomes of this study make significant contributions to the field. First, firms must reorganize their business models that align with their value chain activities. Second, the literature review in this study adds to a growing understanding of the field of research by showing that engaging with Industry 4.0 and the circular economy is desirable and necessary for internalizing knowledge flows across different value chain actors. Third, this study is a first step in the right direction in developing and understanding the critical role of value chains and evolving business models in a global economy with calls for more sustainable development.

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“…-En primer lugar, la ecología industrial se define como "los medios por los cuales la humanidad puede mantener la sostenibilidad, dada la continua evolución económica, cultural y tecnológica considerando el sistema industrial de forma integrada en el entorno" Graedel et al (2010) y Didenko et al (2018) trabajaron en un paso previo focalizado en la comparación de criterios ecológicos entre la economía lineal y circular, para establecer una base de conocimiento mientras que Trollman et al (2021) estudiaron un indicador para la integración ecológica de la fabricación.…”

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La Economía Circular en las organizaciones: estrategias e indicadores. Análisis de casos

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Los retos sociales y medioambientales a los que nos enfrentamos en el siglo XXI han sido el motor de la investigación en economía circular (EC). La EC se define como un sistema económico que minimiza la entrada y el desperdicio de recursos, las emisiones y las fugas de energía del sistema mitigando los impactos negativos sin poner en peligro el crecimiento y la prosperidad (Geissdoerfer et al., 2018).Esta tesis persigue proporcionar un marco conceptual con el fin de analizar el esfuerzo requerido para implementar estrategias de EC en las organizaciones, así como el impacto que genera y la forma en que se mide su grado de avance.Para ello se han realizado los siguientes estudios: (1) análisis bibliográfico del concepto de la EC, estrategias e indicadores; (2) análisis bibliométrico; (3) estudio del caso y análisis comparativo.Esta investigación profundiza en la forma en que la aplicación de la EC está impactando en las organizaciones de la triple hélice: sector académico, empresarial y administración (Ranga et al., 2015), enfatizando los desafíos y lecciones aprendidas. De modo que se puedan identificar las oportunidades, fortalezas, Resumen 10 debilidades y barreras que está teniendo la aplicación real de la EC en las organizaciones.Con dicho fin, se han seleccionado once organizaciones que han sido entrevistadas y analizadas siguiendo los criterios de diversidad (representación internacional pero también una fuerte presencia de la Comunidad Valenciana en el modelo de innovación de triple hélice), autenticidad y relevancia (grado de conocimiento del concepto de EC en para analizar un entorno heterogéneo con diferentes niveles de experiencias, oportunidades, fortalezas, debilidades en el campo de la EC e indicadores.) Los desafíos comunes identificados para todas las organizaciones analizadas son la monitorización de la EC, la heterogeneidad en la aplicación y monitorización de las estrategias EC, la dimensión social, el involucramiento de todos los actores de la sociedad y la pandemia COVID-19. Por otro lado, las lecciones aprendidas comunes a todos los casos de estudio son la cooperación en proyectos de I+D+i financiados, el impacto económico positivo en las cadenas de valor circulares y la formación permanente. Finalmente, los indicadores que son empleados por todas las organizaciones analizadas se centran en el carácter medioambiental (huella de carbono, LCA) o el carácter general (KPI) de los indicadores.

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A Circularity Indicator Tool for Measuring the Ecological Embeddedness of Manufacturing

Cited by 10 publications

References 53 publications

The Consumer’s Role in the Transition to the Circular Economy: A State of the Art Based on a SLR with Bibliometric Analysis

The Consumer’s Role in the Transition to the Circular Economy: A State of the Art Based on a SLR with Bibliometric Analysis

Designing Value Chains for Industry 4.0 and a Circular Economy: A Review of the Literature

La Economía Circular en las organizaciones: estrategias e indicadores. Análisis de casos

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