Material efficiency in manufacturing: swedish evidence on potential, barriers and strategies

Shahbazi, Sasha; Wiktorsson, Magnus; Kurdve, Martin; Jönsson, Christina; Bjelkemyr, Marcus

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.143

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“…Feng and Yan [57] and Geng and Doberstein [16] propose a mix of subsidies that may need to go beyond standard market-based regulatory mechanisms, or loans, which is later corroborated by Mathews and Tan [17] and Pan et al [35]. Preferential taxes are also frequently mentioned [22,35,38,44,45,59].…”

Section: Financialmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The majority of articles can be classified as implementation studies, with an emphasis on case studies of predominantly Chinese eco-industrial initiatives at the meso-level of EIPs [17,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] or SCs and networks [6,10,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]. 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.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…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 resource and energy utilization efficiency gains, which save costs and thus contribute to a firm's competitiveness [31,36,38]. This assumption is also visible in the reframing of the CE from an environmental policy to an economic strategy in China [13].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A large number of authors [1,17,38,50,55,60,64,71] therefore identify better access to and more funding, especially for investments in technology, as critical for firms to implement CE practices. Rizos et al [74] claim that this is especially vital for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that struggle to finance investments in technology.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

2017

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Abstract:As the circular economy (CE) gains traction in literature and practice, several academic communities are opening up spaces that move away from the CE as a pure engineering concept. This systematic literature review (n = 77) analyses and discusses the fragmented body of knowledge on the meso-level of supply chains (SCs): (a) to find common ground that underpins the current implementation of the CE on this level; and (b) to identify drivers, inhibitors, and enablers from which CE SC configurations emerge. The review finds that there remain differences in CE definitions that result from claimed antecedents and scopes, resulting in distinct research streams. On the meso-level, eco-industrial parks, environmental SCs, and closed-loop SCs each face significant challenges. The latter potentially offers the largest environmental benefits but engenders radical changes for business models and exposes SCs to more risk. We firstly argue for moving away from using a prescriptive set of practices as definitions for the CE towards a set of overarching goals to allow for the inclusion of future practices and techniques. Secondly, we highlight that research going beyond the meso-level to consider the wider social and institutional environment is needed to solve current challenges.

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“…These impacts can be improved by adopting a more effective production method and design approach (e.g. design for environment) using less materials which in turn will generate less waste (Shahbazi et al, 2016). While addressing requirements for reducing carbon footprint of the product manufacture and to minimise waste in manufacturing, a number of methods can be found.…”

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Incorporating lean thinking and life cycle assessment to reduce environmental impacts of plastic injection moulded products

Cheung

Leong

Vichare

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tIn the last decades, environmental footprint of the product manufacture has emerged as an important public concern, causing manufacturers to re-assess their product's environmental impacts. Responding to global outcry on global warming, world leaders have agreed to limit global temperature rise to less than 2 C above the temperature in pre-industrial times. As a result, governments and industrial leaders around the world have proposed a roadmap for 80% emissions reduction by 2050. The aim of this work develops a novel approach of linking Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Lean manufacturing to reduce the negative environmental impacts of a plastic injection moulded product. Products that use plastic as their primary source of raw materials are mainly produced by plastic injection processes. Although plastic injection moulding has many benefits such as 'high production rates', there is a lack of through investigation on the effects of this process has on the environment such as climate change, ozone depletion etc. This paper proposes a novel cross-functional mapping approach of linking lean-thinking and LCA. The implementation case study has been presented with the view to re-assess carbon footprint of an existing plastic product. The reported implementation work demonstrates that the adaptation of lean thinking and LCA could significantly minimise negative environmental impacts of a plastic injection product. A case study indicates that the overall environmental impact has been reduced by approximately 40% in climate change, human toxicity, photochemical oxidant formation, acidification and ecotoxicity.

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Barriers to adopting circular business models: A cross‐sectoral analysis

Brändström,

Jazairy,

Roos Lindgreen

2024

Bus Strat Env

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Firm‐level adoption of circular business models is a crucial part of the transition toward circular economy, but companies that delve into such pursuits often encounter a series of barriers that hamper their success. Although multiple studies on barriers to circular economy have been made, there is a lack of understanding of how barriers are formed under firm‐specific characteristics such as sectoral conditions and the type of circular business model adopted. To bridge this gap, we illustrate a barrier framework in a multiple‐case study including nine Swedish firms. We derived about 28 barriers within five categories of circularity approaches (design, waste, service, platform, and nature) across three sectors (furniture, electronics, and garment). This research contributes to the circular economy literature by revealing how adhering to certain sectors and circular business approaches significantly changes the way barriers are perceived by firms. The outcomes may support both practitioners and policymakers as they facilitate circular economy transitions.

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Material efficiency in manufacturing: swedish evidence on potential, barriers and strategies

Cited by 131 publications

References 42 publications

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

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

Incorporating lean thinking and life cycle assessment to reduce environmental impacts of plastic injection moulded products

Barriers to adopting circular business models: A cross‐sectoral analysis

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