Circular Economy and Sustainable Procurement: The Role of the Attestation of Conformity

Migliore, Marco; Talamo, Cinzia; Paganin, Giancarlo

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30318-1_6

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“…The interviewees and documents indicated that the PCPA has a 25% reduction target in expenditure on paper consumption and printing consumables for 2019. Those results correspond to the literature that has acknowledged the importance of developing and using goals, targets and indicators for assessing and reporting CE in PSOs, and the need for further research in this area specifically in the context of PSOs (Droege et al, 2021c; Mendoza et al, 2019a; Migliore et al, 2020). Other strategies such as implementing efficiency diagnostics, conducting audits or having an inventory/stock management system to monitor the circularity of materials and products stocks and flows have also been noted especially in the documents as relevant strategies that could be implemented to support CE implementation in PSOs.…”

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Factors and strategies for circularity implementation in the public sector: An organisational change management approach for sustainability

Klein¹,

Ramos²,

Deutz

2021

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The circular economy (CE) is seen as a model of production and consumption where resource use is reduced and extended in closed‐loop life cycles. Organisations have been fundamental in contributing towards CE for which limited outcomes are known from public organisations. This research aims to identify the factors influencing the implementation of CE and the strategies that support such implementation in the public sector. An organisational change management perspective was taken. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with employees from the central public sector in Portugal to gather insights. Results reveal issues such as organisational culture, CE awareness for people in public sector organisations and leadership related to areas of strategy and management, human resources, and communication and assessment as key elements to consider in shifting towards circularity for this type of organisation. This study contributes to the research that has called for an expansion of the scope of CE to include human‐based issues by viewing a public organisation as a multi‐dimensional system transitioning to circularity.

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confidence: 87%

Factors and strategies for circularity implementation in the public sector: An organisational change management approach for sustainability

Klein¹,

Ramos²,

Deutz

2021

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“…This mention of the EU Ecolabel is linked to CE because the label identifies products that have a reduced environmental impact throughout their lifecycle [90] and also because it is supported by the most prominent common market and consistently updated with ecological criteria in line with CE [76]. One of the analyzed works highlighted also the potential of introducing labels indicating the amount of recycled or reused material and components in products to advance CE practices, although there is a need for circularity metrics to assess such performances [61]. Ecolabels are considered a key tool informing the public procurers in the design of public tenders where ecolabelled products represent a guarantee that the product has the associated environmental or circular requirements [44].…”

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“…Another challenge identified in the literature is the lack of appropriate assessment-based decision-support frameworks, data collection, reporting systems, and circularity performance indicators to further embed CE thinking in PSOs [78]. This observation was also made by Migliore et al [61] regarding the development of reuse and recycled content labels on products available for procurement.…”

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“…Assessment and communication is also a main component of the framework referring to the importance of reporting and accountability in PSOs [37]. This is a dimension that was missing in the literature review compared to the other areas and to the state of research in public sector sustainability management, where performance assessment and indicators are significant topics of study [16], although the importance and need of appropriate CE indicators and measurements in the context of PSOs was highlighted by several authors [61,79]. Popular sustainability assessment methods and communication tools such as LCA or ecolabels are also found in CE literature as key tools to measure, implement, and inform on the circularity of resource flows in organizations [69,76].…”

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Circular Economy Practices and Strategies in Public Sector Organizations: An Integrative Review

2020

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The concept of the Circular Economy (CE) is an increasingly attractive approach to tackling current sustainability challenges and facilitating a shift away from the linear “take-make-use-dispose” model of production and consumption. The public sector is a major contributor to the CE transition not only as a policy-maker but also as a significant purchaser, consumer, and user of goods and services. The circularization of the public sector itself, however, has received very little attention in CE research. In order to explore the current state of knowledge on the implementation of CE practices and strategies within Public Sector Organizations (PSOs), this research aims to develop an overview of the existing literature. The literature review was designed combining a systematic search with a complementary purposive sampling. Using organizational sustainability as a theoretical perspective, the main results showed a scattered landscape, indicating that the limited research on CE practices and strategies in PSOs has focused so far on the areas of public procurement, internal operations and processes, and public service delivery. As a result of this literature review, an organizational CE framework of a PSO is proposed providing a holistic view of a PSO as a system with organizational dimensions that are relevant for the examination and analysis of the integration process of CE practices and strategies. This innovative framework aims to help further CE research and practice to move beyond current sustainability efforts, highlighting that public procurement, strategy and management, internal processes and operations, assessment and communication, public service delivery, human resources dimensions, collaboration with other organizations, and various external contexts are important public sector areas where the implementation of CE has the potential to bring sustainability benefits.

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Role of Conformity Assessment and Metrology in the Circular Economy for Sustainable Growth

Yadav,

Rab,

Wan

et al. 2023

Handbook of Quality System, Accreditation and Conformity Assessment

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Circular Economy and Sustainable Procurement: The Role of the Attestation of Conformity

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Factors and strategies for circularity implementation in the public sector: An organisational change management approach for sustainability

Factors and strategies for circularity implementation in the public sector: An organisational change management approach for sustainability

Circular Economy Practices and Strategies in Public Sector Organizations: An Integrative Review

Role of Conformity Assessment and Metrology in the Circular Economy for Sustainable Growth

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