The Challenges in Achieving a Circular Economy within Leather Recycling

Pringle, Trevor R.; Barwood, Michael; Rahimifard, Shahin

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2016.04.112

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“…Table 3 summarises key barriers identified from literature. (Xue et al, 2010;Yap, 2005;Su et al, 2013;Naustdalslid, 2014;Winans et al 2017;Geng et al 2009;Geng et al, 2012) The need for a considerable amount of upfront investment which has a long-term economic return (Liu & Bai, 2014) Lack of availability of environmental management programs and facilities both under governmental bodies and at academic institutions (Su et al, 2013;Geng & Doberstein, 2008;Yap, 2005) Lack of understanding of CE's principles Lack of financial support mechanisms and tax incentives (Geng & Doberstein, 2008;Liu & Bai, 2014;Xue et al, 2010;Su et al, 2013;Geng et al, 2009;Matthews et al, 2011) Lack of available incentives to promote greener activities and save water, energy, and materials (Geng et al, 2009;Su et al 2013) Lack of Qualified personnel on CE (Xue et al, 2010;Yap, 2005;Su et al, 2013;Li & Yu, 2011) Lack of appropriate partners in supply chains Pomponi & Moncaster, 2017) Many of the areas performing landfilling and incineration activities are lack of adequate technologies (Pringle et al, 2016;Gregson et al, 2015) Low level of demand and acceptance of remanufactured products from public due to their appearance (Pomponi & Moncaster, 2017;Naustdalslid, 2014;Singh & Ordoñez, 2016;Zhu & Tian, 2016) High cost of establishing eco-industrial chains…”

Section: Barriers To Circular Economymentioning

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“…Poor accountability of local governments and inadequate legal system Geng & Doberstien, 2008;Su et al, 2013;Li & Yu, 2011;Naustdalslid, 2014;Winans et al 2017;Matthews et al, 2011) The need for a remarkable investment for advanced technology and the updating o facilities and equipment (Su et al, 2013) Lack of adequate technologies used in landfilling and incineration activities cause huge irrevocable environment losses (Pringle et al, 2016;Gregson et al, 2015) Lack of a standard system for performance assessment, data collection, calculation and submission and punishment (Su et al, 2013;Geng et al, 2012) High cost of material scrap directs firms to use cheaper virgin materials (Wübbeke & Heroth, 2014;Pomponi & Moncaster, 2017) Lack of a sophisticated understanding of CE practices from governments (Geng & Doberstien, 2008;Naustdalslid, 2014) There is a growing interest in CE in the UK and EU. The Biffaward programme, which was practiced between 1999 and 2008, can be considered as one of the starting points of CE in the UK (Hill, 2015).…”

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Circular economy in the manufacturing sector: benefits, opportunities and barriers

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In recent years, Circular Economy (CE) has come to prominence as an alternative to the classic approach of "make-use-dispose". How companies can exploit the opportunities of CE to position themselves better are not well articulated in literature. This paper therefore aims to identify the barriers and opportunities of CE in the manufacturing sector through a socio-political, economic, legal and environmental perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopts a positivist approach, which is deductive in nature. A survey questionnaire was designed and distributed to manufacturing companies operating in the UK and EU. The study used FAME database and social networking platform LinkedIn to identify manufacturing companies. More than 200+ companies were approached for this study and data collection lasted over two months. Findings: The study provides a comprehensive review of the CE literature and identifies a number of barriers and opportunities to CE implementation from socio-political, economic, legal and environmental perspective. The findings highlight key barriers, opportunities and benefits of CE for the manufacturing industries operating in the UK and EU. Research limitations/implications: The findings are limited to 63 responses from the survey questionnaire distributed to manufacturing companies in the UK and EU. The present study aims to equip manufacturers with necessary understanding of the key opportunities and barriers to address the challenges encountered during the implementation of CE.

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“…After production, the waste is predominantly solid materials such as tannery sludge, waste leather, lining, adhesive, scrap, etc. (Pringle et al, 2016). In sustainable manufacturing, this waste is returned to the primary stage of the process (Jawahir and Bradley, 2016).…”

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Drivers to sustainable manufacturing practices and circular economy: A perspective of leather industries in Bangladesh

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Rahman

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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Sustainable manufacturing practices and the circular economy have recently received significant attention in academia and within industries to improve supply chain practices. Manufacturing industries have started adopting sustainable manufacturing practices and a circular economy in their supply chain to mitigate environmental concerns, as sustainable manufacturing practices and a circular economy result in the reduction of waste generation and energy and material usage. The leather industry, in spite of it contributing remarkably to a country's economic growth and stability, does not bear a good image because of its role in polluting the environment. Therefore, the leather industries of Bangladesh are trying to implement sustainable manufacturing practices as a part of undertaking green supply chain initiatives to remedy their image with the buyer and to comply with government rules and regulations. The main contribution of this study is to assess, prioritize and rank the drivers of sustainable manufacturing practices in the leather industries of Bangladesh. We have used graph theory and a matrix approach to examine the drivers. The results show that knowledge of the circular economy is paramount to implementing sustainable manufacturing practices in the leather industry of Bangladesh. This study will assist managers of leather companies to formulate strategies for the optimum utilization of available resources, as well as for the reduction of waste in the context of the circular economy.

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“…there is always some inefficiency which could be decreased by proper management and change in the way the processes are conducted. Some studies conducted by Pringle, Barwood and Rahimifard (2016), Stepanov et al (2015) proposed a new point of views connected with leather processing. Some of them are directly connected to leather cutting for the needs of automotive industry (Grieco, Pacella and Blaco, 2017).…”

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Using Industry 4.0 Concept – Digital Twin – to Improve the Efficiency of Leather Cutting in Automotive Industry

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Purpose: The aim of this study is to propose alternatives of increasing the efficiency of material selection and processing in the selected company and reduce costs and leather sustainability as a result.Methodology/Approach: In this case study, an automotive company processing a natural leather material that enters the process of a large-scale production was explored. For this purpose, the internal documents of the firm selected including its internal database and know-how of its employees were used. The ways of improving the efficiency of the material processing were proposed and tested in a digital environment. In the proposed solutions, Industry 4.0 principles were implemented.Findings: By the use of Digital twin and other Industry 4.0 principles and solutions in the process of material selection and processing in the company selected, the increased efficiency and cost savings were achieved.Research Limitation/implication: The solutions proposed in this paper were based on exploration of the chosen data set of the selected company. For the future research, testing of the given proposals in other companies should be conducted.Originality/Value of paper: Although there is an increasing number of publications describing the concept Industry 4.0, the research providing evidence of its benefits for business entities is still scarce. This paper offers such a research in the enterprise selected.

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The Challenges in Achieving a Circular Economy within Leather Recycling

Cited by 37 publications

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Circular economy in the manufacturing sector: benefits, opportunities and barriers

Circular economy in the manufacturing sector: benefits, opportunities and barriers

Drivers to sustainable manufacturing practices and circular economy: A perspective of leather industries in Bangladesh

Using Industry 4.0 Concept – Digital Twin – to Improve the Efficiency of Leather Cutting in Automotive Industry

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