“…Another interesting distinction is that 20% of European companies say that none of the suggested measures will help them to improve resource efficiency, whereas no Russian company chose this answer. Thus, the results of our survey confirm that Russian companies have barriers to the development of the circular economy 2.0, which were previously revealed in Schoggl et al [43]. These include a lack of government enforcement and cooperation, a lack of proven technolo-gies, a lack of awareness, and the high cost of resource efficiency innovations.…”
Section: Comparative Analysis Of the Answers Of Russian Companies Wit...supporting
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“…In the most recent paper from the same academic team [43] the authors investigated 131 case studies from the Circular Economy Industry Platform (CEIP) database to identify barriers that companies face in CE projects. They found that the main barriers are regulatory (lack of definitions/standards, lack of government enforcement and cooperation, and lack of harmonization in European legislation).…”