Critical factors for enhancing the circular economy in waste management

Salmenperä, Hanna; Pitkänen, Kati; Kautto, Petrus; Saikku, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124339

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“…The emergence of the circularity is a natural evolutionary process, but new challenges are now being encountered, such as the seamless (no-fragmented) arrangement and aggregation of relevant functional activities over time to ensure a continuous and closed cycle of "raw material-product-waste" movements [34]. In the long run, circularity protects the world dependence on natural resources and delivers benefits to society by absorbing emissions and waste through increased material circulation and stayed limits of the natural environment [35][36][37].…”

Section: Literature Review On Circularitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Products and services are rethought in the implementation of circular solutions based on durability, recyclability, reusability, repair, replacement, renewal, upgrading and reduced use of materials [6,31]. To avoid waste, increase resource productivity and decouple growth from natural resource consumption, companies need to apply these principles [37,42].…”

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confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Literature Review On Circularitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Review On Circularitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Core Elements Towards Circularity: Evidence From the European Countries

Lingaitienė¹,

Burinskienė²

2021

Preprint

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“…Salmenpera et al [49] state that MSW management must be reviewed in order to stimulate and increase the circularity of the material. They also affirm that the recycling sector lacks other actors in the development and processing of waste, as it is currently the catadores who assume the tasks related to the extraction of resources from the MSW and their application in innovative recovery.…”

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The Integration of Recycling Cooperatives in the Formal Management of Municipal Solid Waste as a Strategy for the Circular Economy—The Case of Londrina, Brazil

Miranda

Fidelis

Fidelis³

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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In many developing countries, the informal recycling sector is responsible for reducing the amount of waste in landfills and supplying the needs of recycling industries. In the context of municipal solid waste (MSW) management, considering that developing countries aim to implement circular economy (CE) actions, it is essential to ensure the inclusion of waste pickers (catadores) in an adapted CE structure. This study analyzes the integration of recycling cooperatives in the formal management of municipal solid waste with recyclable potential (MSWRP) of a medium-sized municipality in Brazil, with the objective of ascertaining the contributions of cooperatives in an adapted CE structure and, at the same time, identifying a cooperative that can be used as a benchmarking option for other cooperatives, especially in relation to their organizational and operational practices. The results indicate that from this integration, cooperatives have legal responsibility in the management of MSWRP, resulting in the professionalization of its members and increasing their productivity. The results also revealed that the implementation of the CE in developing countries is, in a sense, conditioned to the performance of the informal sector in the recycling chain and, in addition, that the inclusion of cooperatives in the formal sector of MSWRP management can improve the rates of a municipality.

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“…The key to this is local regenerative systems aimed at decoupling economic activity from virgin resource consumption. The critical factors for circular economy implementation include environmental, economic, social, institutional, technological and informational, supply chain, and organizational factors (Tura et al, 2019), and these are well documented (e. g., Kirchherr et al, 2018; Preston & Lehne, 2017) for a range of industries (Jaeger & Upadhyay, 2020; Salmenperä et al, 2021). However, the dominant scholarly and policy debates on the CE-based transition thus far have largely focused on the technological and industrial aspects, such as business model innovation and process engineering (Khitous et al, 2020; Murray et al, 2017).…”

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The Role of Institutions in Creating Circular Economy Pathways for Regional Development

Henrysson

Nuur

2021

The Journal of Environment & Development

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In the past decade, the circular economy has gained attention as a mechanism of transition toward a regenerative, low carbon, and resource-efficient society. As the history of previous radical transformations shows, successful transition toward the circular economy cannot take place without understanding the institutional features of industrial transformations. This article highlights the significance of institutions by placing the circular economy model in the context of the natural resource–based sector and discusses the importance of institutions in regional path development. The article identifies three institutional determinants of both endogenous and directed transformation toward the circular economy model in the regional context: (i) proximity of physical flows and assets, (ii) maturation and diversity of market networks, and (iii) inherent values and patterns of cooperation. This article offers a starting point for future studies of circular economy transitions and the role of institutions as enabling, as well as at times obstructing transition environments.

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Critical factors for enhancing the circular economy in waste management

Cited by 187 publications

References 36 publications

Core Elements Towards Circularity: Evidence From the European Countries

Core Elements Towards Circularity: Evidence From the European Countries

The Integration of Recycling Cooperatives in the Formal Management of Municipal Solid Waste as a Strategy for the Circular Economy—The Case of Londrina, Brazil

The Role of Institutions in Creating Circular Economy Pathways for Regional Development

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