Toward a Framework for Resource Efficiency Evaluation in Industry: Recommendations for Research and Innovation Projects

Sfez, Sophie; Dewulf, Jo; Soete, Wouter De; Schaubroeck, Thomas; Mathieux, Fabrice; Kralisch, Dana; Meester, Steven De

doi:10.3390/resources6010005

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“…Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology and underlying Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) methods have been considered as a good basis for screening the resource efficiency of product systems (Schneider et al, 2016, Huysman et al, 2015), including specific application to recycling processes (Birat, 2016, Sfez et al, 2017). LCA has been widely adopted to assess the environmental performance of PV panels, as illustrated by several reviews (Sherwani et al, 2010, Gerbinet et al, 2014, Peng et al, 2013).…”

Section: Literature Review On Eol Treatments Of Pv Panelsmentioning

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Resource efficient recovery of critical and precious metals from waste silicon PV panel recycling

2019

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Highlights Resource efficiency of PV recycling processes is analysed in different scenarios. Processes with high-efficiency can recycle up to 83% of the waste panel. Obtaining high-quality recycled materials from PV grants significant benefits. The treatment of halogenated plastics represents a bottleneck for PV recycling. Knowing the composition of panels is essential to boost their efficient recycling.

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Section: Literature Review On Eol Treatments Of Pv Panelsmentioning

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Resource efficient recovery of critical and precious metals from waste silicon PV panel recycling

2019

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“…Following the design phase, the production stage will also undergo significant changes [56,57]. Since the production process is almost impossible to universalize from a structural point of view, it will be easier to visualize changes through a model of production cost formation.…”

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Impact of 3D-Printing Technologies on the Transformation of Industrial Production in the Arctic Zone

2019

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Today the process of transition to a new technological order has become evident to everyone, especially in developed countries. One of the most urgent areas for ensuring the long-term competitiveness of industrial enterprises is the development of the Arctic zone. This region has many economic and logistical difficulties, the solution of which may lie in the use of advanced technologies of the new technological order, for example, 3D-printing technologies. The aim of the article is to study the transformation of the cost structure of industrial products as a result of integration of 3D-printing technologies into the production process of industrial enterprise operating in the Arctic zone. It was found that the structure of the main cost elements varies greatly, due to the ambiguity of replacing computer numerical control (CNC) (or other classical shaping technologies) with 3D-printing technologies, as well as the specifics of supply chains, which is quite urgent for the Arctic region. The results of empirical study necessitate the development of tools for predicting the economic viability of integrating 3D-printing technologies into the technological processes of industrial enterprises operating in the Arctic zone. Within the article, the authors substantiated and developed a fuzzy-multiple model for assessing the level of investment attractiveness of integration of 3D-printing technologies into the production process of an industrial enterprise operating the Arctic zone. One of the aims of this model is to answer the question of whether an enterprise should invest in a technological transition to 3D-printing technologies.

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“…This requires determining whether the undertaken activity is delivering the intended results. This approach is combined with the concept of efficiency, which should be understood as the best results for the production or distribution of goods and services at specified costs or as low as possible for the effects in question [88]. Classically computed economic efficiency is therefore the result of the actions described by the relationship of effects to expenditure.…”

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The Relationship between Efficiency and Quality of Municipally Owned Corporations: Evidence from Local Public Transport and Waste Management in Poland

Jedynak

Wąsowicz

2021

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Sustainable development requires the intervention of public authorities in areas where market mechanisms do not guarantee the proper allocation of goods. Some of these goods include public services such as local collective transport and municipal waste management. In many countries, the process of remunicipalizing these service provisions is underway and, in the modern model used in providing these services, municipally owned corporations (MOCs) play a special role. The specific nature of these companies (i.e., the duality of their objectives and that they are required to run classic economic calculations while they are assessed in terms of the quality of their services) encouraged the authors to formulate the primary goal of the study, which was to assess the link between the financial and operational efficiency of MOCs and the quality of their services. The present study’s authors developed a method for measuring the financial and operational efficiency of MOCs. In addition, a set of standards for assessing the quality of public service provision were defined, and opinion surveys were carried out to evaluate them. Subsequently, multi-criteria rankings of the efficiency and quality of services of the MOCs tested were drawn up using a synthetic variable based on the zero unitarization method (ZUM). A correlation of the analyzed variables was examined (Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient) and simple line regression models were built. Our research showed that analyses of MOCs, when limited to their financial and operational aspects, are incomplete. According to the empirical analysis carried out, the financial and operational efficiency of MOCs does not translate to the quality of their services. Therefore, we believe that, in assessing the activities of MOCs, it is necessary to take into account criteria that measure the quality of meeting the needs of the local community in addition to financial criteria.

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Toward a Framework for Resource Efficiency Evaluation in Industry: Recommendations for Research and Innovation Projects

Cited by 12 publications

References 60 publications

Resource efficient recovery of critical and precious metals from waste silicon PV panel recycling

Resource efficient recovery of critical and precious metals from waste silicon PV panel recycling

Impact of 3D-Printing Technologies on the Transformation of Industrial Production in the Arctic Zone

The Relationship between Efficiency and Quality of Municipally Owned Corporations: Evidence from Local Public Transport and Waste Management in Poland

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