How do companies measure and forecast environmental impacts when experimenting with circular business models?

Das, Ankita; Konietzko, Jan; Bocken, Nancy

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2021.10.009

Cited by 58 publications

(62 citation statements)

References 60 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Regarding the environmental impacts, measuring the environmental value proposition (Das et al, 2022) is difficult in any CBM, but this study has taken one step forward by analyzing not only the reduction of CO 2 emission but also the benefit of marine litter prevention. However, those are only a part of the ecosystem services that the environment can provide.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nuts and bolts of tropical tuna purse seine nets recycling: A circular business model

Andrés¹,

Zudaire²,

Larreta³

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Tropical tuna purse seiners are one of the most important contributors to end-of-life (EoL) fishing gears in the world, and these fishing nets can become a promising secondary raw material. Thus, tuna companies are looking for possibilities to valorize them by applying circular economy (CE). This contribution aims at assessing the viability of creating a circular business model out of recycled tropical tuna purse seine EoL nets. The yearly contribution of the Spanish tuna freezer purse seine companies to EoL fishing nets was estimated at 900 tons. Three pilot projects were implemented (involving 80 tons of EoL tuna nets) to learn about the monetary and material flows, supply chain, stakeholders' perception, and the environmental impacts of upcycling polyamide nets into four marketable products (i.e., conditioned fishing nets, backpacks, fishers' dungarees, and sunglasses). The results indicate that recycled regrinds/flakes and pellets were 37 and 50%, respectively, more expensive than virgin counterparts, but the yarn may achieve competitive production costs in the textile industry, with an additional environmental benefit close to 69% per kg of virgin–origin yarn. The challenges faced when recycling EoL polyamide fishing nets were discussed. Innovation and logistics appear to play a fundamental role in making the business sustainable. Besides, the circular business model methodology to assess the value proposition was also discussed in its empirical application.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nuts and bolts of tropical tuna purse seine nets recycling: A circular business model

Andrés¹,

Zudaire²,

Larreta³

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In line with the doughnut economics core elements to guide business in their transitions, we investigate the purpose, networks, governance, ownership, and finance of businesses practicing sufficiency (Kelly, 2012; DEAL (Doughnut Economics Action Lab)., 2021). Two more gaps in CE research relate to the lack of environmental impact assessment (Das et al, 2021) and scaling up of initiatives (Chembessi et al, 2021). Hence, we also investigate "impact" and "scale" in the cases.…”

Section: Research Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The CE paradigm does not exclude this, but by not emphasizing this topic more prominently, practitioners of the CE paradigm currently run the risk of continuing to focus on incremental resource strategies that fail to mitigate the issues of the predominant industrial system. To support meaningful transition, quantitative evidence on environmental impact reduction and the potential negative environmental rebound effects associated with each of the circular strategies are needed (Blomsma and Brennan, 2017;Zink and Geyer, 2017;Das et al, 2021). Overconsumption is gradually becoming a real citizen concern.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Sufficiency-Based Circular Economy—An Analysis of 150 Companies

2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The circular economy has become a popular paradigm in the business and policy spheres. It can support sustainable development by aiming to safeguard the resources to mitigate negative impacts on the climate and the environment and to sustain our current and future generations. Yet, despite progress with circular economy initiatives, there is a risk of focusing on incremental innovations with little real impact, and possibly even creating serious negative rebound effects. This study suggests that the concept of “sufficiency” is inadequately represented in the current circular economy discourse and innovations, and this may be undermining real progress. In this paper, the Sufficiency-based Circular Economy paradigm is introduced. We investigate the following questions: What is the role of business in the sufficiency-based circular economy? What are the institutional limitations to the role of business as a driver for the transition and how might these be overcome? We conduct a “practice research” by analyzing company cases of sufficiency practices in a business context. We analyse 150 business cases to identify how their organizational strategies support sufficiency and what type of innovations they exemplify within this transition. We investigate seven core business elements for economic transformation (purpose, ownership, governance, finance, networks, scale-up and impact) of these businesses to understand how they drive the value propositions and their impact on the wider transition. This is followed by a discussion on a broader business and policy perspective of the Sufficiency-based Circular Economy.

show abstract

“…But besides this, the results from such assessments often do not lead to specific improvements performed. The knowledge for measuring the environmental impact tends to be concentrated in a few experts within the company, who are, in most of the cases, are not the product or business model designers (Das, A. et al 2021).…”

Section: State Of the Art Of The Impact Assessment In Production Envi...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Use Case on Environmental Impact Assessment in the Fish Canning Industry

Contreras

Sabater²,

Valencia³

2022

EJSD

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper covers the environmental impact of manufacturing industrial production processes for addressing the Sustainability dimension of Industry 5.0. The model implemented by the GOGreen solution – an AI based software solution for the calculation and monitoring of the food waste and carbon and water footprints - integrated in the European Connected Factory Platform for Agile Manufacturing (EFPF), is presented as an enabler to support the environmental impact assessment in industrial SMEs. The requirements to be fulfilled by the overall system are presented together with the architecture of the integrated solution. As a use case, its implementation in a fish canning industrial process is presented to provide an exemplary scenario illustrating the process workflow and the role of the solution. The main goal of this paper is empowering non-professional users to perform the assessment of the environmental impact of their industrial processes, which is indeed a capability key in Industry 4.0 and will be even more relevant in Industry 5.0.

show abstract

How do companies measure and forecast environmental impacts when experimenting with circular business models?

Cited by 58 publications

References 60 publications

Nuts and bolts of tropical tuna purse seine nets recycling: A circular business model

Nuts and bolts of tropical tuna purse seine nets recycling: A circular business model

The Sufficiency-Based Circular Economy—An Analysis of 150 Companies

Use Case on Environmental Impact Assessment in the Fish Canning Industry

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About