What Is ‘Value’ and How Can We Capture It from the Product Value Chain?

Lee, Jacquetta; Suckling, James; Lilley, Debra; Wilson, Garrath T.

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-0471-1_20

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“…A performance economy approach, where the objective is to maintain the quality of stock rather than focusing on flows of components or materials through the economy, is an approach that facilitates this view (Lee et al. ). For example, is the optimum value realized by reusing the phone, or by capturing and reusing the components?…”

Section: Understanding “Value” In the Circular Economymentioning

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“…The service provider will be well‐placed to facilitate more effective management of a staged recovery process for valuable components and metals at the optimal point of value recovery (Lee et al. ; Suckling and Lee ). The skin component, which would be owned by the customer, is designed to accrue emotional “value” and stimulate the desire to maintain it and return the device at strategic points for refurbishment and internal upgrade of the skeleton and organs .…”

Section: A Product Service System To Close the Loop On E‐wastementioning

confidence: 99%

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Closing the Loop on E‐waste: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Bridgens

Hobson

Lilley

et al. 2017

J of Industrial Ecology

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SummaryThis paper describes the challenges faced, and opportunities identified, by a multidisciplinary team of researchers developing a novel closed loop system to recover valuable metals and reduce e-waste, focusing on mobile phones as a case study. This multidisciplinary approach is contrasted with current top-down approaches to making the transition to the circular economy (CE). The aim of the research presented here is to develop a product service system (PSS) that facilitates the recovery of valuable functional components and metals from mobile phone circuit boards. To create a holistic solution and limit unintended consequences, in addition to technological solutions, this paper considers appropriate component lifetimes; the (often ignored) role of the citizen in the circular economy; customer interaction with the PSS; environmental life cycle assessment; and social impacts of the proposed PSS. Development of enabling technologies and materials to facilitate recovery of components and metals and to provide an emotionally durable external enclosure is described. This research also highlights the importance of understanding value in the CE from a multifaceted and interdisciplinary perspective.

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Section: Understanding “Value” In the Circular Economymentioning

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Section: A Product Service System To Close the Loop On E‐wastementioning

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Closing the Loop on E‐waste: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Bridgens

Hobson

Lilley

et al. 2017

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…This can only be reduced through reusing the components (Lee et al. ). Second, the shortened lifetime of phones and recycling at the end of that short lifetime means that many phones need to be manufactured to meet demand, some of which could be met by maximizing the potential of a secondhand market.…”

Section: Background To the Life Cycle Of A Mobile Phonementioning

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Integrating Environmental and Social Life Cycle Assessment: Asking the Right Question

Suckling

Lee

2017

J of Industrial Ecology

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Mobile phones offer many potential social benefits throughout their lifetime, but this life is often much shorter than design intent. Reuse of the phone in a developing country allows these social benefits to be fully realized. Unfortunately, under the current state of development of recycling infrastructure, recovery rates of phones after reuse are very low in those markets, which may lead to an environmental burden due to loss of materials to landfill. In order to recover those materials most effectively, recycling in developed countries may be the best option, but at a cost of the ability to reuse the phones. The issues facing integration of social and environmental concerns into a single life cycle assessment and resulting challenges of identifying the disposal option with the most sustainable outcome are explored using mobile phones as a case study. These include obtaining sufficient geographical and temporal detail of the end of life options, the collation and analysis of the large amounts of data generated and the weighting of the disparate environmental and social impact categories. The numerous challenges may mount up to make performing life cycle assessment of mobile phones unwieldy. Instead of trying to encompass every aspect in full, it is proposed that focus is given to answering a question which takes into account the resources available: it is important to ask the question which has the best chance of being answered

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“…Industries involved in the transformation of pine resin, an abundant natural and non-toxic raw material, into derivatives are currently facing the challenge to keep up with market demands. This industrial sector is often referred to as the second industry in the product value chain [ 4 ], where the primary industry is responsible for cleaning and separating the raw material into basic fractions (e.g., the separation of pine oleoresin into colophony and turpentine derivatives, see Zinkel and Russell [ 5 ]) and the third industry produces higher-value chemicals resulting from the transformation/incorporation of resin derivatives. Typically, the second industry produces derivatives in the form of elastomers, polymers for biomedical applications, coatings, adhesives, and surfactants [ 6 ], as well as food products and excipients for the fragrance and pharmaceutical industries [ 7 ].…”

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On the Design of Aqueous Emulsions of Colophony Resin

Ingrez

Ferreira

Gameiro³

et al. 2023

Polymers

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Companies regularly face market pressure to develop products faster but they also need to simultaneously incorporate technological constraints, sustainability trends, and customer requirements into their designs, which requires the use of systematic procedures. Firms that exploit natural resources and convert them into high-value products are among them. However, the literature on the application of such systematic approaches to products of this type remains scarce, as they often requrire extensive experimental plans involving the testing and optimization of multiple formulations. Here, we propose a systematic approach to the design of pine-resin-in-water emulsions, which can be used to fabricate pressure-sensitive adhesives. The strategy is customer-centric in the sense that the customers’ specifications are integrated into the decision-making tool used to assess the quality of the formulations obtained through experiments. This tool uses loss functions to assess satisfaction with individual quality characteristics and multi-attribute decision-making methods to integrate them into an overall quality metric. Our framework is aligned with industrial practices and consists of three sequential stages: (i) screening of primary factors; (ii) optimization of secondary factors; and (iii) assessment of the experimental repeatability of the formulations. In each of these stages, the decision-making tool is used to “drive” the process of finding the optimal formulation.

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What Is ‘Value’ and How Can We Capture It from the Product Value Chain?

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Closing the Loop on E‐waste: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Closing the Loop on E‐waste: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Integrating Environmental and Social Life Cycle Assessment: Asking the Right Question

On the Design of Aqueous Emulsions of Colophony Resin

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