Redesigning the Camel

Mayers, Kieren; Peagam, Richard; Basson, Lauren; Clift, Roland

doi:10.1111/j.1530-9290.2010.00320.x

Cited by 31 publications

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“…As a consequence, PROs collect all waste together, and then charge average collection and recycling costs to the different producers. 55 Because of this, EPR has not yet fully succeeded in creating the incentives for producers to adapt the design of their products for easier recycling. 56 Separate collection of end-of-life products by each producer directly from a consumer's location would be highly complex to organize considering their weekly waste volumes.…”

Section: Incentives For Improved Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stakeholder Views on Extended Producer Responsibility and the Circular Economy

Kunz

Mayers

Wassenhove

2018

California Management Review

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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations require that producers organize and pay for treatment and recycling of waste arising from their products at end of life. EPR has been effective in implementing some aspects of circular economy. In Europe, 35% of e-waste and 65% of packaging waste have already been recycled (or reused in some cases). This article analyzes the challenges of implementing EPR and provides useful insights for what has worked well and what challenges remain. Identifying and addressing these challenges will be crucial for framing legislation that will move industry and society toward a more circular economy.

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Section: Incentives For Improved Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stakeholder Views on Extended Producer Responsibility and the Circular Economy

Kunz

Mayers

Wassenhove

2018

California Management Review

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107

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“…The EU WEEE Directive (Directive 2002/96/EC), the precursor to Directive 2012/19/EU (also called WEEE Recast"), holds producers responsible for financing the recovery of their end-of-life products. Producers may comply by developing individual collection and recovery activities, or by joining a collective recovery scheme (Mayers et al 2011). One explicitly stated objective of Directive 2002/96/EC is to incentivize producers to design products that are easier to recycle.…”

Section: Reverse Logistics: Photovoltaic Panelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Producers may comply by developing individual collection and recovery activities, or by joining a collective recovery scheme (Mayers et al. 2011). One explicitly stated objective of Directive 2002/96/EC is to incentivize producers to design products that are easier to recycle.…”

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Addressing the Challenge of Modeling for Decision‐Making in Socially Responsible Operations

Besiou

Wassenhove

2015

Production and Operations Management

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Companies seek sustainability by combining the quest for profitability with the pursuit of social responsibility. Since socially responsible operations are characterized by the presence of multiple stakeholders with conflicting goals, applying classical optimization models would seem premature; we first need to capture the behavior of the entire system before attempting to optimize sub‐systems to ensure that we focus on the ones driving the behavior of interest. Alternative methodologies are required if we are to gain insight into the most important drivers of socially responsible operations in order to apply traditional operations research (OR)/management science (MS) models correctly. This study presents an umbrella approach which combines different methodologies to tackle the complexity, unfamiliar context, and counter‐intuitive behavior of socially responsible operations at the overall system level.

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“…This rather obvious conclusion has important implications for public policy on the management and recycling of durable goods. Recycling targets are commonly framed in terms of the proportion of secondary material in 'new' goods, [25,26] because f is usually easier to monitor than R, but without reference to whether the stock of material in the sector is growing. Figure 3 shows why this approach can have perverse consequences by increasing demand for secondary material.…”

Section: Growth and Replacement Of Stockmentioning

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Chemical engineering and industrial ecology: Remanufacturing and recycling as process systems

2022

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Climate change and resource scarcity are just two of the planetary crises that make radical socio-economic change essential if human society is to be sustainable. Chemical engineering is a skill-set that can make a unique contribution to the socio-economic transition, going beyond new technological processes to provide a system-level understanding of economic activities from the perspective of industrial ecology. This paper provides an example by applying process system analysis to the use, re-use, remanufacturing, and recycling of material products. Unlike the 'circular economy' approach, the analysis starts from the stock of goods and materials in use in the economy and models the flows required to build up, operate, and maintain the stock. Metrics are developed to account for the effect of stock growth on demand for materials. The significance of the analysis is illustrated for four metals whose industrial ecologies are at different levels of maturity: lead, copper, aluminium, and lithium. Extending product life through re-use and remanufacturing is crucial for resource efficiency, using labour to reduce demand for energy and non-renewable resources. If end-of-life products are processed to recover individual elements, the cost penalties increase rapidly with the decreasing concentration of valuable materials and increasing number of materials in the mixture. Thus, shifting from a linear economy (makeÀuseÀdispose) to closed-loop use of materials involves rethinking product design to reduce the number of materials used.Material substitution to reduce demand for scarce materials needs to look beyond equivalence of function to consider changing patterns of use in the regenerative economy.

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Redesigning the Camel

Cited by 31 publications

References 3 publications

Stakeholder Views on Extended Producer Responsibility and the Circular Economy

Stakeholder Views on Extended Producer Responsibility and the Circular Economy

Addressing the Challenge of Modeling for Decision‐Making in Socially Responsible Operations

Chemical engineering and industrial ecology: Remanufacturing and recycling as process systems

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