A typology and assessment of innovations for circular plastic packaging

Hafsa, Fatima; Dooley, Kevin; Basile, George; Buch, Rajesh

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133313

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“…Since the motivating example for the proposed methodology is to establish an SCE for the grocery bags value chain, eco-innovations from the packaging domain are screened and ranked to guide future investments. An exhaustive list of conceptual eco-innovations in the packaging domain has been developed by researchers at the Global Kaiteki Center, , which categorizes eco-innovations based on their (a) readiness level for adoption and (b) targeted value-chain sector.…”

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“…These can be perturbed by innovations within the advanced recycling sector. In order to screen from a list of over 100 conceptual eco-innovations, , we match these key hotspot and sensitive sectors with the sector categories in the compiled list. In case of multiple competing innovations in the same sector, we select the ones with the highest readiness level (RL) for adoption.…”

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“…This UU* measure, in addition to their readiness for adoption (50:50 preference), is used to determine the ranking of these eco-innovations. We terminate the method after ten eco-innovations (N = 10) from the large compiled list of over two hundred 43 innovation ideas and concepts are screened and ranked. This termination criterion (after ten eco-innovations) is selected for demonstration purposes; however, users can define termination criteria (number of innovations ranked) based on their investment budgets and resource constraints.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Ranking Eco-Innovations to Enable a Sustainable Circular Economy with Net-Zero Emissions

Thakker

Bakshi

2023

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.

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The urgency of action toward mitigating climate change and reducing material leakage into the environment is inspiring a plethora of innovative technologies, supply chains, and policy actions. These are targeted toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions, natural resource uptake, and decoupling technological systems from fossil-based linear economies using circularity strategies. Industrial and governmental stakeholders are keen to rank these proposed eco-innovations and emerging alternatives based on their scope of contributing to a sustainable and circular economy to meet global warming curtailment and pollution mitigation targets. We describe a novel methodological framework that relies on a multiobjective optimization of cradle-to-cradle life-cycle pathways to screen from a large database of conceptual eco-innovations and rank them based on their potential for establishing a Sustainable Circular Economy (SCE). This methodology is implemented for a motivating case study to evaluate numerous packaging eco-innovations based on their improvement potential and readiness for adoption within the grocery bags value-chain network. It is demonstrated that a preliminary screening step identifies the 10 most promising eco-innovations from a large superset of alternatives, which if developed and adopted can help transition the value chain to a future scenario with net-zero emissions and adherence to the recycled and renewable-content targets set by the United States Plastics pact but at a higher cost.

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Bakshi

2023

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.

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“…As described in Section 2.3.3, there are certain practical challenges in obtaining the parameters required to model these CTMCs. Thus, we have relied on insights and values from several industrial stakeholders and collaborators 40 in this article. In the future, limiting behavior will be used to fit CTMC parameters on academic and patent citation data about historic innovations.…”

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Mapping the path to a net‐zero chemicals industry by long‐term planning with changes in technologies and climate

Thakker,

Bakshi

2024

AIChE Journal

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The chemical industry, along with many other industries, has pledged to reach net‐zero emissions within the next few decades for greenhouse gases, plastics, etc. This requires systematic methods to guide investment in technologies and value‐chain alternatives, and develop roadmaps. The proposed framework is a multiperiod planning model to guide optimal reforms in cradle‐to‐cradle life‐cycle networks across the pledged time horizon. It aims to meet environmental targets while minimizing the total annualized cost of natural resources and the investment cost associated with adoption of novel technologies. This considers the evolution of technology readiness levels as S‐curves or continuous time Markov‐chains. Integrated Assessment models account for climate change, decarbonization due to energy mix changes, and carbon taxes. Multiple climate change scenarios and shared socioeconomic pathways are used to model future scenarios. In addition to providing roadmaps, the outputs can also be used to identify technologies that will be robust to future scenarios.

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“…However, for the fact that the food packaged can be contaminated with chemical components through contact and cause potential risks, the safety and pollution of takeout packaging materials become an important indicator to measure food safety and environmental protection (Han et al, 2021 ; Haque and Fan, 2022 ). The most widely used takeout food packaging material is plastic (Liu et al, 2020 ), due to the fact that (i) raw materials are cheap and easy to obtain, and the profit margin is large; (ii) simple processing method can meet the needs of different food packaging; (iii) lightweight and easy to carry; (iv) good performance of gas retention, seepage prevention, and heat sealing; and (v) good chemical stability, acid, and alkali corrosion resistance (Hafsa et al, 2022 ).…”

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The impact of perceived risk of online takeout packaging and the moderating role of educational level

Guo

Tan

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Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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With the rapid development of e-commerce and the impact of COVID-19, online takeout has become the first choice of more and more consumers. Previous research has indicated that food packaging is of great significance to marketing performance, yet very little is known about the mechanisms through which food packaging pollution risk affects online takeout consumption. This study proposes an expanded model of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) by incorporating the Concept of Perceived Risk (CPR) to analyze the mechanism of consumers’ packaging pollution risk perception (PPRP) on their purchasing intention toward online takeout. Online survey was performed to collect data from 336 valid respondents in China, which was analyzed using structural equation modeling. The research findings verify the effectiveness of the TPB in the context of Chinese online takeout. Notably, the PPRP of online takeout was found to have a significant negative impact on consumers’ attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control (PBC). It was also confirmed that consumers’ attitudes, subjective norms, and PBC regarding online takeout partially mediate the negative relationship between PPRP and purchase intention. In addition, the findings corroborate the granular nuances among three groups concerning consumers’ education level. The results do not only provide suggestions to the online takeout industry but also contribute theoretical value and practical significance for the improvement of sustainable food consumption.

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A typology and assessment of innovations for circular plastic packaging

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Ranking Eco-Innovations to Enable a Sustainable Circular Economy with Net-Zero Emissions

Ranking Eco-Innovations to Enable a Sustainable Circular Economy with Net-Zero Emissions

Mapping the path to a net‐zero chemicals industry by long‐term planning with changes in technologies and climate

The impact of perceived risk of online takeout packaging and the moderating role of educational level

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