Product Stewardship, Waste Minimization and Economic Efficiency: Lessons from Germany

Michaelis, Peter

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“…Existing research within the field has focused on a number of aspects that often encompass the entire supply chain (see Srivastava, 2007), including total quality management (Klassen & McLaughlin, 1993;Porter & van der Linde, 1995), lean supply chain management (Kleindorfer, Singhal, & Wassenhove, 2005;Rothenberg, Pil, & Maxwell, 2001;Simpson & Power, 2005), reverse logistics (Chan, 2007;Guide & Van Wassenhove, 2002;Wu & Dunn, 1995), life cycle assessment (Beamon, 1999;Hagelaar, van der Vorst, & Marcelis, 2004;Stewart, Collins, Anderson, & Murphy, 1999), and product stewardship (Michaelis, 1995;Verghese & Lewis, 2007). Although such approaches have highlighted the dynamics and complexities of implementing GSCM, they tell us little about implementing GSCM within individual buyer-supplier relationships.…”

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“Green” supply chain management: The role of trust and top management in B2B and B2C markets

Hoejmose¹,

Brammer²,

Millington³

2012

Industrial Marketing Management

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“Green” supply chain management: The role of trust and top management in B2B and B2C markets

Hoejmose¹,

Brammer²,

Millington³

2012

Industrial Marketing Management

228

148

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“…In this way, "the product life-cycle could be closed by making the producers responsible for their products from cradle to grave" [6]. Green, blue, brown, yellow and gray bins became available for separate waste collection and, within a few years, the reports showed improvements in the quality and the quantity of waste collected for recycling [6,7].…”

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Smart City Platform Development for an Automated Waste Collection System

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Nowadays, governments and companies are looking for solutions to increase the collection level of various waste types by using new technologies and devices such as smart sensors, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud platforms etc. In order to fulfil this need, this paper presents solutions provided by a research project involving the design, development and implementation of fully automated waste collection systems with an increased usage degree, productivity and storage capacity. The paper will focus on the main results of this research project in turning the automated waste collection system into a smart system so that it can be easily integrated in any smart city infrastructure. For this purpose, the Internet of Things platform for the automated waste collection system provided by the project will allow real time monitoring and communication with central systems. Details about each module are sent to the central systems: various modules' statuses (working, blocked, needs repairs or maintenance etc.); equipment status; storage systems status (allowing full reports for all waste types); the amount of waste for each module, allowing optimal discharging; route optimization for waste discharging etc. To do that, we describe here an IoT cloud solution integrating device connection, data processing, analytics and management.

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“…She traces the first use of the term 'stewardship' in an environmental management context to the Canadian Chemical Producers Association's (CCPA) Responsible Care Code developed in the late 1970s/mid-1980s (Lewis, 2005). Since the 1990s product stewardship has become increasingly prominent within discourses around material responsibility (Hart, 1995(Hart, , 1997Michaelis, 1995) including in principles espoused by corporations such as Xerox (Maslennikova and Foley, 2000) and Hewlett-Packard (Preston, 2001). However, discourses of product stewardship have been subsumed and displaced by corporate commitments and, increasingly, legal obligations, framed as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), especially in schemes such as those in place in the EU for end-of-life vehicles.…”

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Stewardship of things: The radical potential of product stewardship for re-framing responsibilities and relationships to products and materials

Lane

Watson

2012

Geoforum

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Abstract:In the context of broad-based concerns about the need to move towards a more sustainable materials economy, particularly as they are expressed in debates around ecological modernisation (EM), we argue that product stewardship has radical potential as a means to promote significant change in the relationship between society and the material world. We focus on two important dimensions that have been neglected in approaches to product stewardship to date. Firstly, we argue that immanent within the basic concept of stewardship is a problematisation of dominant understandings of property ownership in neoliberal market economies. In the space opened up by notions of stewardship, different ways of enacting both rights and responsibilities to products and materials emerge which have potential to advance the sustainability of material economies. Secondly, through exploration of existing expressions of product stewardship, we uncover a neglected scale of action. Both policy and dominant articulations of EM focus primarily on the efficiency of production processes; and secondarily, the attitudes and behaviours of individual consumers. Missing from this is the 'meso-scale' of social collectives including households, neighbourhoods, more distributed communities and small scale social enterprises. Based on a review of existing research from Australia and the UK, including our own, we argue that understanding of embedded practices of material responsibility at the household scale can both reinvigorate the concept of product stewardship as a potentially radical intervention, and reveal the potential of the meso-scale as a challenging but worthwhile realm of policy intervention.Stewardship of things: The radical potential of product stewardship for re-framing responsibilities and relationships to products and materials Lane and Watson 2

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Product Stewardship, Waste Minimization and Economic Efficiency: Lessons from Germany

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“Green” supply chain management: The role of trust and top management in B2B and B2C markets

“Green” supply chain management: The role of trust and top management in B2B and B2C markets

Smart City Platform Development for an Automated Waste Collection System

Stewardship of things: The radical potential of product stewardship for re-framing responsibilities and relationships to products and materials

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