Cascade Use and the Management of Product Lifecycles

Kalverkamp, Matthias; Pehlken, Alexandra; Wuest, Thorsten

doi:10.3390/su9091540

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“…Therefore, this functionality increases resource efficiency, since appliances provided by Alpha are high-efficiency and sometimes shared among several households. It also extends product lifespan, since appliances are repaired and maintained, following the CE hierarchy [33], and closes the loop, since collected appliances are renovated, and appliance components are disassembled and reused.…”

Section: Digital Technologies In the Alpha Casementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, CE needs to give equal attention to both the reverse and forward flows of products, components, and materials [13], by the implementation of reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chains [32]. A hierarchy among the several reverse logistics activities should be followed [33]: reuse is generally preferable to recycling, since much of the product intrinsic value remains intact [34]. Moreover, products should be redesigned with the aim of enhancing multiple lifecycles [35], in order to improve reuse, refurbishment, remanufacturing, and recycling.…”

Section: Circular Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, the company should aim to extend the lifespan of products. Third, the company should close the loop, i.e., enhance multiple product lifecycles of reuse, remanufacturing, and, as an ultimate option, recycling [33]. If appropriately designed, the CE value drivers may bring economic and environmental benefits to the company [3].…”

Section: Circular Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring How Usage-Focused Business Models Enable Circular Economy through Digital Technologies

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Recent studies advocate that digital technologies are key enabling factors for the introduction of servitized business models. At the same time, these technologies support the implementation of the circular economy (CE) paradigm into businesses. Despite this general agreement, the literature still overlooks how digital technologies enable such a CE transition. To fill the gap, this paper develops a conceptual framework, based on the literature and a case study of a company implementing a usage-focused servitized business model in the household appliance industry. This study focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and analytics, and identifies eight specific functionalities enabled by such technologies (improving product design, attracting target customers, monitoring and tracking product activity, providing technical support, providing preventive and predictive maintenance, optimizing the product usage, upgrading the product, enhancing renovation and end-of-life activities). By investigating how these functionalities affect three CE value drivers (increasing resource efficiency, extending lifespan, and closing the loop), the conceptual framework developed in this paper advances knowledge about the role of digital technologies as an enabler of the CE within usage-focused business models. Finally, this study shows how digital technologies help overcome the drawback of usage-focused business models for the adoption of CE pointed out by previous literature.

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“…The search results were filtered to include only review and research articles published since 2010 until December 2019. The studies that include life cycle analysis were excluded from this research because their purpose is to quantify the ecological, social, and economic impacts, hence, beyond biomass flow balance (e.g., in [37][38][39]).…”

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Contribution Towards a Comprehensive Methodology for Wood-Based Biomass Material Flow Analysis in a Circular Economy Setting

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Cunha

Meyer

et al. 2020

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It is challenging to quantify the production of wood-based biomass, to define the type and where it comes from, how it is used, and the amount that remains available. This information is crucial for the implementation of national and transnational regulations and is a pillar for the development of the future bio-based circular economy. A variety of studies estimate the production of biomass, performs material flow analyses, or addresses supply chain modelling. These studies are often built upon distinct assumptions, tailored to a specific purpose, and often poorly described. This makes comparison amongst studies, generalization of results, or replication hard to even impossible. This paper presents a comprehensive methodology for wood-based biomass material flow analysis, anchored in Material Flow Analysis, built upon literature review and deducted through systematization of previous studies. This is a five-step approach, consisting of (1) adopt proper terminology; (2) obtain accurate estimates for the biomass flows; (3) Sankey diagram for resource balance representation; (4) scenario analysis; (5) stakeholders validation. The focus is to provide instructions for producing a generalized Sankey diagram, from the categorization of biomass resources, uses/applications in a circular economy setting, towards the development of scenario analysis. Its practical implementation is presented by defining the yearly wood-based biomass resource balance of Portugal and the waste wood resource balance of Flanders. The main data sources for the quantification of the biomass sources and uses/applications are identified. Based on the insights from these case studies, our methodological approach already shows to be replicable and with comparable results. This enables the comparison of resource flows between different regions and countries and also monitoring the progress over time. This leads to improved data which can be instruments for supporting companies’ decision-making processes (e.g., infrastructure investments or other strategic decisions), as well as designing policy strategies and incentives.

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“…Reuse of components [22], including through remanufacturing [18] and modularity [23]. [24], cascading [25].…”

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Material efficiency strategies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with buildings, vehicles, and electronics—a review

Hertwich

Ali

Ciacci

et al. 2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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As one quarter of global energy use serves the production of materials, the more efficient use of these materials presents a significant opportunity for the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With the renewed interest of policy makers in the circular economy, material efficiency (ME) strategies such as light-weighting and downsizing of and lifetime extension for products, reuse and recycling of materials, and appropriate material choice are being promoted. Yet, the emissions savings from ME remain poorly understood, owing in part to the multitude of material uses and diversity of circumstances and in part to a lack of analytical effort. We have reviewed emissions reductions from ME strategies applied to buildings, cars, and electronics. We find that there can be a systematic trade-off between material use in the production of buildings, vehicles, and appliances and energy use in their operation, requiring a careful life cycle assessment of ME strategies. We find that the largest potential emission reductions quantified in the literature result from more intensive use of and lifetime extension for buildings and the light-weighting and reduced size of vehicles. Replacing metals and concrete with timber in construction can result in significant GHG benefits, but trade-offs and limitations to the potential supply of timber need to be recognized. Repair and remanufacturing of products can also result in emission reductions, which have been quantified only on a case-by-case basis and are difficult to generalize. The recovery of steel, aluminum, and copper from building demolition waste and the end-of-life vehicles and appliances already results in the recycling of base metals, which achieves significant emission reductions. Higher collection rates, sorting efficiencies, and the alloy-specific sorting of metals to preserve the function of alloying elements while avoiding the contamination of base metals are important steps to further reduce emissions.

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Cascade Use and the Management of Product Lifecycles

Cited by 38 publications

References 41 publications

Exploring How Usage-Focused Business Models Enable Circular Economy through Digital Technologies

Exploring How Usage-Focused Business Models Enable Circular Economy through Digital Technologies

Contribution Towards a Comprehensive Methodology for Wood-Based Biomass Material Flow Analysis in a Circular Economy Setting

Material efficiency strategies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with buildings, vehicles, and electronics—a review

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