A study on legislative and policy tools for promoting the circular economic model for waste management in China

Abstract

The circular economy has been developing rapidly in recent years in China. A legislative system has been created to provide legal protection for the development of a circular economy, including a series of price and tax measures in the waste management area. These measures form the basic foundation for promoting better waste management under the circular economic model. Many challenges, however, remain. For instance, the legal system needs to incorporate more sophisticated science, and China lacks key waste treatment technology that could support the further development of a circular economy. There is also a need to educate the public about the concept of the circular economy and its benefits. Specific suggestions are made for the development and implementation of the circular economic model. Keywords Circular economy Á Waste management Á Legislative and policy toolsBackground and development of the circular economic model in China

Supply Chain Configurations in the Circular Economy: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Studies on the macro-level of cities [44][45][46], economic areas [47,48], and national and global industries, particularly logistics and waste [7,14,[49][50][51][52], were only included if they informed implementation on the meso-level, as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Other implementation studies focus on reviewing and informing policy [13,16,17,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67], specifically on product design for the CE [8,9,14,[64][65][66] as well as assessments of firms' [67,68], consumers' [69][70][71], and officials' [72] awareness of and attitudes towards the CE's concepts and its components. Two contributions are concerned with business model research [73,74].…”

“…Li and Yu, 2011 [59] "In an attempt to mitigate these difficulties, however, China's general strategy is one of sustainable development -promoting comprehensive resource conservation and efficient utilization, and clean production: the circular economic model. "…”

“…Table 3 gives an overview-drivers were synthesized from the wealth of information from the literature and grouped into six broad categories. Avoiding regulative costs of environmental pollution and waste As pollution and waste related externalities are re-directed at firms, they are incentivized to alter their practices [10,36,45,59,63,68] Brand reputation and right-to-operate in global markets As governments implement stricter environmental regulation, firms can enter and expand in markets more easily if they have environmentally sound management practices [7,13,14,17,31,36,45,46,57,59,74,79] Improved brand reputation with consumers Could result in the ability to monetize "green" products [6,8,14,36,37,44] Increased business resiliency/reduced risk By avoiding dependence on price-volatile resources, firms can reduce their business risk on the supply side [6,16,36] On a fundamental level, resource efficiency and resource flow slowing practices result in …”

“…As pollution and waste related externalities are re-directed at firms, they are incentivized to alter their practices [10,36,45,59,63,68] Brand reputation and right-to-operate in global markets…”

Developmental Mode for Circular Economy in the Yellow River Delta

“…For example, Feng and Yan proposed an implementation framework of circular economy in China and some methods of practically implementing a circular economy in China in 2007 [5]. Li and Yu researched legislative and policy tools for promoting the circular economic model for waste management in China in 2011 [6]. Andersen explained in detail some fundamental principles and approaches in environmental economics of circular economy in 2007 [7].…”