2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105563
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Circular economy monitoring – How to make it apt for biological cycles?

Abstract: Highlights1. Existing circular economy (CE) monitors, mainly, assess the extent to which resources are looped back in the economy and seem less apt for assessing the circularity of biological cycles. 2. Characteristics of biological cycles, that distinguish them from technical cycles, are their renewability, potential use in cascading, closing the biological nutrient loop, and the environmental impact of biotic resources depletion, land-use and biogenic carbon flows. 3. These characteristics need to be added t… Show more

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“…The review of Navare et al ( 2021 ) provides an initial understanding of the opportunities provided by the circular economy (CE) as a solution to the current need to reduce the environmental impacts of the conventional sugar industry and their relation to sustainability.…”
Section: Circular Economy In the Sugar Industrymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The review of Navare et al ( 2021 ) provides an initial understanding of the opportunities provided by the circular economy (CE) as a solution to the current need to reduce the environmental impacts of the conventional sugar industry and their relation to sustainability.…”
Section: Circular Economy In the Sugar Industrymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Therefore, the circularity of biological cycles and their subsequent processing should be analyzed to avoid overexploitation of natural resources and further degradation of ecosystems. Therefore, according Navare et al ( 2021 ) thorough CE monitoring of the biological cycles should assess (1) sustainable sourcing (2) cascading use of materials (3) the extent to which nutrients effectively re-enter the biological cycles and (4) the environmental impact of sourcing biotic resources and carbon fluxes using economic and environmental indicators, to identify the key elements to optimize their economic performance and a lower environmental impact.…”
Section: Circular Economy In the Sugar Industrymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Initially, the inputs come from a container with reclaimed wood from the recycling park (Ecowerf ), second hand stores (ViTeS) and urban mining in buildings. At the micro scale, it is crucial to take material characteristics specific to wood into account, such as different wood categories (clean versus contaminated), circular economy cascading principles for wood [48], and specific transportation and processing requirements. After a few months, the materials bank additionally started looking at wood (waste) inflows from landscape management.…”
Section: The Materials Bank's Messy Development Processmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As an example, wood beams converted to particle boards are to be valued lower than wood beams converted to smaller beams in a subsequent application. Tools to quantitatively assess such forms of cascading are still in development [48]. For the moment, a number of other parameters could be measured, like the size or contamination degree of wood beams.…”
Section: How To Monitor the Performance Of A Materials Banks And How To Link This Performance To A City-wide Ce Monitoring?mentioning
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