Is it all about Information? The Role of the Information Gap between Stakeholders in the Context of the Circular Economy

Lawrenz, Sebastian; Nippraschk, Mathias; Wallat, Phillip; Rausch, Andreas; Goldmann, Daniel; Lohrengel, Armin

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2021.01.118

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“…Several studies have observed this [9,26]. One important prerequisite to improve this situation, going from waste to circularity, is to have a well-functioning information flow within the forward and reverse supply chains [27].…”

Section: Circularity Vs Wastementioning

confidence: 95%

Circularity for Electric and Electronic Equipment (EEE), the Edge and Distributed Ledger (Edge&DL) Model

Andersen

Jæger

2021

Sustainability

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In the transition to a circular focus on electric and electronic products, manufacturers play a key role as the originators of both the products and the information about the products. While the waste electric and electronic equipment (WEEE) directive’s contemporary focus is on handling the product as waste after its end of life, the circular economy focuses on retaining the product’s value with a restorative system. The polluter-pays principle requires producers of pollution to bear the costs of handling the pollution, leading to the extended producer responsibility (EPR) principle. This requires manufacturers to change their focus from their current passive role of out-sourcing end-of-life treatment to taking explicit responsibility for product management over an extended period of time. This paper investigates how a manufacturer can assume its responsibility to achieve circularity for its products. Based on our findings, three fundamental circularity principles, the circular electric and electronic equipment (CEEE) principles, for manufactures of electronic and electrical equipment are defined: (1) Serialize product identifiers, (2) data controlled by their authoritative source at the edge, and (3) independent actors’ access to edge data via a distributer ledger are the foundation of the Edge and Distributed Ledger (Edge&DL) model. We demonstrate the model through a case study of how to achieve circularity for lighting equipment. The CEEE principles and the demonstrated model contribute to building new circularity systems for electronic and electric products that let manufacturers undertake their extended product responsibility.

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Section: Circularity Vs Wastementioning

confidence: 95%

Circularity for Electric and Electronic Equipment (EEE), the Edge and Distributed Ledger (Edge&DL) Model

Andersen

Jæger

2021

Sustainability

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“…Even for users who are willing to make decisions in line with the Circular Economy, these decisions are not easy. These users have problems making these decisions "correctly" because the required information is often lacking [11]. On the one hand, this is due to complex and globalized production, and on the other hand, the optimum can vary locally.…”

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“…Data and Information Privacy and Transparency: For tracing the Sustainability Impact Factor, data and information are required to describe the sustainable impact of an entity or a service. Furthermore, data and information are essential in decision making in line with the Circular Economy, for example, to decide the depth of repair or disassembly decisions for a second life, remanufacturing, recycling, or so on [11,19]. Furthermore, another challenge related to the description above is the integrity of data and information.…”

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Implementing the Circular Economy by Tracing the Sustainable Impact

Lawrenz

Leiding

Mathiszig

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Sustainability is one of the most critical issues today. Thus, the unsustainable consumption of resources, such as raw materials, CO2 emissions, and the Linear Economy needs to be changed. One framework for a more sustainable economy is the Circular Economy. Although the concept of the Circular Economy has been around since the 1990s, yet we are still far from enabling a Circular Economy. Therefore, a turnaround to the current linear economy as well as a change in society is necessary. In this paper, we get down to the essence of the status quo in the Circular Economy, identify the main barriers, such as lack of information, unsustainable economic models, ignorance, missing incentives, and propose software-driven solutions to tackle these challenges. Our solution extends the service description language by introducing the sustainability impact factor. The goal is to motivate end-users towards a more sustainable behavior without making massive restrictions on their lives.

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“…Dies stellt eine Art planbare Sekundärrohstoffquelle dar. Welche zusätzlichen neun Herausforderungen sich aus der Weitergabe dieser Informationen an weitere Stakeholder ergeben sind in [22] andiskutiert.…”

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Der Einfluss der Fügetechnik auf die Konstruktion von Produkten für das Kreislaufwirtschaftssystem

Wallat¹,

Lohrengel²

2021

DS 111: Proceedings of the 32nd Symposium Design for X

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Is it all about Information? The Role of the Information Gap between Stakeholders in the Context of the Circular Economy

Cited by 23 publications

References 7 publications

Circularity for Electric and Electronic Equipment (EEE), the Edge and Distributed Ledger (Edge&DL) Model

Circularity for Electric and Electronic Equipment (EEE), the Edge and Distributed Ledger (Edge&DL) Model

Implementing the Circular Economy by Tracing the Sustainable Impact

Der Einfluss der Fügetechnik auf die Konstruktion von Produkten für das Kreislaufwirtschaftssystem

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