Analyzing barriers for the adoption of circular economy in the manufacturing sector

Abstract

PurposeThe operational activities of manufacturing organizations are continuously degrading the environment. Circular economy adoption can help industries optimize their resources along with minimal waste generation. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the barriers that hinder the adoption of circular economy (CE) in the manufacturing sector.Design/methodology/approachThe barriers are extracted from a critical review of the literature and listed into three categories as social, economic and environmental. The barriers in each category are then analyzed using the fuzzy-based analytic hierarchy process method. The approach is capable to consider the fuzziness in the preference of barriers and determine their priority.FindingsThe pairwise comparison and weight of all the main and sub-criteria are computed, which helps in deciding the ranking of barriers. The results show that social criteria are having the highest importance followed by economic and environmental criteria. Among all the sub-criteria, low demand and acceptance of remanufactured products is at the highest level followed by lack of government support and legislation barrier.Originality/valueThe outcome of this study would be helpful for the decision makers and business managers in the manufacturing sector to focus on the barriers in each category and accordingly formulate strategies for CE adoption.

The role of environmental commitment and green creativity on business performance mediated by circular economy implementation

“…The finding of this study supports the previous research from Rhein & Strater (2021;Singh et al, 2018;Moktadir et al, 2020;Badhotiya et al, 2021;Daddi, 2018) which statted that environmental commitment has a positive and significant influence on circular economy implementation. Table 6 show the result that the t-statistic value of environmental commitment on circular economy implementation is 3.989 > 1.96 with the p-value of 0.000 < 0.05, thus hypothesis 2 is accepted.…”

“…The study carried out by Singh et al (2016;Rhein & Strater, 2021;Moktadir et al, 2020;Badhotiya et al, 2021;Daddi, 2018) showed a significant influence of environmental commitment on circular economy readiness. Lack of environmental commitment in the organization will be an obstacle in adopting circular economy.…”

“…The Influence of Environmental Commitment on Circular Economy Implementation Rhein & Strater (2021) stated that commitment that is made voluntarily will improve the circular economy. Badhotiya et al, (2021) showed that social criteria have the highest importance in adopting a circular economy. One of the social criteria is the management commitment.…”

The effect of environmental commitment on circular economy implementation

“…These barriers are divided into three criteria, namely social, economic, and environmental. Badhotiya et al, (2021) state that the social barrier criteria have the highest importance among the three criteria. There is a hierarchy of barriers to the lack of top management commitment within the social criteria.…”

Industry 4.0 and Smart Data as Enablers of the Circular Economy in Manufacturing: Product Re-Engineering with Circular Eco-Design

“…This paper, therefore, aims to fill the literature gap regarding the role played by smart manufacturing techniques in the adoption of circular economy practices [42], and how to transform part of Big Data into Smart Data [39], focusing on the re-engineering of the product and input sourcing system in an operational environment with a quantitative approach [41]. To achieve this goal, the study analyzes the manufacturing process of ceramic tiles for construction in Italy, a resource-intensive industry [43] with a complex input sourcing system [44], a high level of adoption of Industry 4.0 digital technologies [45,46], and characterized by the implementation of internationally recognized environmental best practices [11].…”