Circular economy in manufacturing companies: A review of case study literature

Bjørnbet, Marit Moe; Skaar, Christofer; Fet, Annik Magerholm; Schulte, Kjersti Øverbø

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126268

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“…LCA assesses only the environmental dimension of sustainability, although this is important, and so is the safeguarding of the social and economic sustainability. Especially social sustainability is in danger of being ignored or treated as implicit in CE efforts [6].…”

Section: A Holistic Perspective On Circular Economy and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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Life Cycle Assessment to Ensure Sustainability of Circular Business Models in Manufacturing

Bjørnbet

Vildåsen

2021

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Circular business models (CBMs) represent a path for coordinating circular economy (CE) efforts. Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool for quantifying environmental effects of a product or a service and can therefore evaluate the environmental sustainability of CBMs. This paper explores whether LCA can act as an enabler for manufacturing companies who want to implement a CBM. Following a case-study approach, we draw on the experiences of a specific manufacturing company during the time period 2014–2021. The paper presents key lessons on the interaction between LCA and CE. The study finds that LCA—by providing quantified results on the environmental impacts of circular strategies—limits the risk of problem shifting and challenges the normative rule of closing the loop by including a set of multiple impact categories. LCA offers a common platform and encourages communication with stakeholders. These characteristics make LCA a well-suited tool for CBM development. However, the holistic perspective on environmental problems that LCA provides can also complicate CE's clear message of 'closing the loop'. Lastly, LCA is a tool for environmental evaluation, and with the main emphasis of CE also on environmental issues, there is high risk of neglecting social and economic aspects of sustainable development.

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Section: A Holistic Perspective On Circular Economy and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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“…However, most manufacturing SMEs are still on a low stage of CE implementation [5]. For companies, a suggested route for CE implementation is through circular business models (CBMs) [6][7][8][9][10]. CBMs offer a promising path for CE implementation, but there is still limited support in the transition phase from linear BMs to CBMs [11].…”

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Life Cycle Assessment to Ensure Sustainability of Circular Business Models in Manufacturing

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Vildåsen

2021

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“…The authors emphasize that companies that want to reduce municipal waste must focus on consumers and forms of consumption [65,66]. For example, reuse, reduce and recycle, we must effectively promote the need to change certain consumer behaviour [19] and to have a substantial waste reduction, through prevention, reduction, recycling [27,34,54,67].…”

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Core Elements Towards Circularity: Evidence From the European Countries

Lingaitienė¹,

Burinskienė²

2021

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In this paper, the authors identified key elements important for circularity: (1) Background: The primary goal of circularity is to eliminate waste and to prove the constant use of resources. In the paper, we classify studies according to circular approaches. The authors identified main elements and classified them into categories important for circularity, starting with the managing and reducing waste and the recovery of resources; and ending with the circularity of material, and general circularity-related topics and presented scientific works dedicated to each of the above-mentioned categories. The authors analyzed several core elements from the first category aiming to investigate and connect different waste streams and provided a regression model; (2) Methods: The authors used a dynamic regression model to identify relationships among variables and selected the ones, which has an impact on the increase of biowaste. The research was delivered for the 27 European Union countries during the period between 2020 and 2019; (3) Conclusions: The authors indicated that the recycling rate of wasted electrical equipment in the previous year has an impact on the increase of recycling biowaste next year. This is explained as non-metallic spare parts of electronic equipment are used as biowaste for fuel production. And the separation process of the composites of electric equipment takes some time, on average the effect is evident in one year period.

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“…With no exception, an economic decline has also been felt by Indonesia of up to −2.07% (YoY) [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. The manufacturing sector and service operations are the main driving force for economic growth [8][9][10][11].…”

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Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises’ Business Vulnerability Cluster in Indonesia: An Analysis Using Optimized Fuzzy Geodemographic Clustering

Caraka

Kurniawan²,

Nasution³

et al. 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused effects in many sectors, including in businesses and enterprises. The most vulnerable businesses to COVID-19 are micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Therefore, this paper aims to analyze the business vulnerability of MSMEs in Indonesia using the fuzzy spatial clustering approach. The fuzzy spatial clustering approach had been implemented to analyze the social vulnerability to natural hazards in Indonesia. Moreover, this study proposes the Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) to optimize the Fuzzy Geographically Weighted Clustering (FGWC) in order to cluster the business vulnerability in Indonesia. We performed the data analysis with the dataset from Indonesia’s national socioeconomic and labor force survey (SUSENAS and SAKERNAS). We first compared the performance of FPA with traditional FGWC, as well as several known optimization algorithms in FGWC such as Artificial Bee Colony, Intelligent Firefly Algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization, and Gravitational Search Algorithm. Our results showed that FPAFGWC has the best performance in optimizing the FGWC clustering result in the business vulnerability context. We found that almost all of the regions in Indonesia outside Java Island have vulnerable businesses. Meanwhile, in most of Java Island, particularly the JABODETABEK area that is the national economic backbone, businesses are not vulnerable. Based on the results of the study, we provide the recommendation to handle the gap between the number of micro and small enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia.

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Circular economy in manufacturing companies: A review of case study literature

Cited by 153 publications

References 84 publications

Life Cycle Assessment to Ensure Sustainability of Circular Business Models in Manufacturing

Life Cycle Assessment to Ensure Sustainability of Circular Business Models in Manufacturing

Core Elements Towards Circularity: Evidence From the European Countries

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises’ Business Vulnerability Cluster in Indonesia: An Analysis Using Optimized Fuzzy Geodemographic Clustering

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