Breaking circular economy barriers

Grafström, Jonas; Aasma, Siri

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126002

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“…However, at the same time, it raises multiple technological challenges, institutional barriers, market, and social challenges, and the need for capital emerges. Therefore, it is critical creating favorable conditions for the formation of a circular economy (Grafström & Aasma, 2021), which underlines the need for support from national governments and international organizations, including the EU. On the other hand, they are also interested in the progress towards such economy, taking into consideration the fact that it has more and more impact on the economic growth on account of creating the added value, recycling of materials, innovative technologies, services, intellectual solutions, trade and productive diversification (Hysa et al, 2020).…”

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Factors of uneven progress of the European Union countries towards a circular economy

Polyakov

Khanin

Bilozubenko

et al. 2021

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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The increased final consumption exacerbates the problem of the scarcity of natural resources and leads to environmental pollution. The concept of circular economy, which implies the formation of closed-loop chains of production and consumption with maximum regeneration and recycling of materials, is considered as an alternative to the firmly established “linear economy” (take-make-dispose). As a part of sustainable development strategy, the European Union adopted a general policy on the transition to a circular economy. However, for objective reasons, such transition is quite uneven at the level of member countries, which adversely affects the total progress. Therefore, the need arises to assess the positions of individual countries and identify major reasons for the uneven transition to support the countries that are lagging.The goal of the study is to identify the factors of uneven progress of the EU countries towards a circular economy. For that reason, a set of empirical data (20 indicators) has been compiled; cluster, classification, and parametric analyses have been conducted. As a result, three clusters of the EU countries have been obtained and six indicators, included into combinations that make all clusters different, have been identified. These indicators can be interpreted as the key factors contributing to the uneven progress of the EU countries towards a circular economy. The difference in harmonic means by clusters allowed quantitatively estimating a “circular gap”. It is of practical value for the EU policy aimed at bridging the gaps between member countries during the transition to a circular economy.

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Factors of uneven progress of the European Union countries towards a circular economy

Polyakov

Khanin

Bilozubenko

et al. 2021

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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“…Transition to СЕ is accompanied with complex introduction of new business models, their gradual upgrading to the required efficiency levels, which requires in-depth optimization (Geissdoerfer, Pieroni, Pigosso, Soufani, 2020). In order to form СЕ and obtain the expected benefits, it is also required to overcome multiple technological, market, institutional and social barriers (Grafström, Aasma, 2021).…”

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Constructing a model of national production system for building a circular economy for international trade involvement

Polyakov¹,

Khanin²,

Shevchenko³

et al. 2021

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The paradigm of "unlimited growth" capitalism leads to an aggravating the problem of a natural resource shortage, an increase in waste and general pollution of the Earth. The concept of a circular economy (CE) is an alternative to this; it implies a transition to closed production and consumption cycles. The purpose of the article is to supplement this concept with ideas of integrating several rationalizing production models of the CE building at the national production system level, taking into account the country's participation in international trade. These model production models are "flexible custom manufacturing", "distributed manufacturing" and "lean manufacturing", which also means the widespread involvement of small and medium-sized enterprises. The use of digital technologies for a new quality of communication, as well as the creation of sharing centers, in order to achieve greater organizational and technological complexity of the production system is required. The CE building must take into account the country's participation in international trade. Attention is focused on the fact that the CE will have a different effect on certain types of international trade, in particular, it will stimulate such trade as: materials for processing, secondary raw materials, technologies, projects of finished products, R&D services. Purposeful national and global policies, expansion of international cooperation and support of developing countries are needed in order to increase the positive contribution of international trade to СЕ building. Practical recommendations for the CE concept implementation are proposed, including the creation of: information infrastructure for production networks; digital platforms for interaction between producers and consumers; industrial parks, clusters and incubators for new industries, as well as technological, digital and organizational innovation stimulation.

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“…Fourteen authors describe the characteristic of waste hierarchy applied to typical policy instruments, a fast link between waste management and resource use, as the implementation of it. In many areas, progress has been noted mainly in recycling industrial and organic waste [61,62]. The authors emphasise that companies that want to reduce municipal waste must focus on consumers and forms of consumption [62,63].…”

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Core Elements towards Circularity: Evidence from the European Countries

Lingaitienė

Burinskienė

2021

Sustainability

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In this paper, the authors identified key elements important for circularity. The primary goal of circularity is to eliminate waste and prove the constant use of resources. In the paper, we classified studies according to circular approaches and stated which of them get the highest attention. Further, we identified the principal elements, grouped them into four categories important for circularity, and presented scientific works dedicated to each of the above-mentioned categories. Further on, several core elements from the first category were investigated, aiming to connect different waste streams and provide a regression model. Finally, the methodological part reviewed the correlation between various types of waste and their recycling and selected suitable ones for developing a new panel regression model. The empirical research was delivered for the 27 European Union countries during the period between 2000 and 2019. We indicate that the recycling rate of municipal waste impacts the increase of recycling biowaste the same calendar year. The increase of recycling of municipal waste by one per cent means the increase of the recycling of biowaste by 0.6 per cent.

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Breaking circular economy barriers

Cited by 237 publications

References 50 publications

Factors of uneven progress of the European Union countries towards a circular economy

Factors of uneven progress of the European Union countries towards a circular economy

Constructing a model of national production system for building a circular economy for international trade involvement

Core Elements towards Circularity: Evidence from the European Countries

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