Leather wastes in the Portuguese footwear industry: new framework according design principles and circular economy

Marques, António Dinis; Guedes, Graça; Ferreira, Fernando

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.07.043

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“…The baseline of this concept is the development of the economic loop mechanism [10, [14][15][16][17] in which waste becomes the raw materials of the future. It consists of important pillars including Industrial symbiosis and ecology, regenerative design, performance economy, and cradle to cradle subject [10,16,[18][19][20][21][22].…”

Section: Circular Economy Principles and Key Requirements Within The mentioning

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The Stakeholders’ Perspective within the B Corp Certification for a Circular Approach

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A circular economy has been gaining momentum as the most innovative approach in business. Its proposed model, based on sustainability and new product-driven differentiated strategies of production and organizational exchange, has brought to light the need to better understand the relevance of stakeholders as a critical factor in the creation of new added value in business management. The primary purpose of this paper is to investigate how the B-Corp Certification System could contribute to a process of awareness raising in business organizations. It also focuses on the stakeholders’ commitment, within the framework of circular economy principles, and demonstrates that those companies who are adopting the certification concerning “recycling service and waste management” strongly contribute to the development in the direction of the circular economy. The analysis of the case studies shows two possible scenarios describing the circular approach in business and the different roles of stakeholders in the activation of such a virtuous path. “Social recycling” considers the key role of social participation and contribution in circular-economy related activities of primary and secondary stakeholders, and “highly regenerative recycling” aims to involve qualified stakeholders to start inter-organizational symbioses within the circular process of waste recycling. Key factors, such as industrial symbiosis, tax benefits, financial incentives, legislative harmonization, and the consumers’ behavior, represent the tenets of the circular economy model An awareness-raising perspective and the capacity on the part of companies to understand the relevance of stakeholders and the way to transform their role into the most effective lever to reinforce competitiveness is therefore necessary. Accordingly, the whole system of Benefit Corporation certification could boost business towards new business models involving stakeholders in several directions.

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Section: Circular Economy Principles and Key Requirements Within The mentioning

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“…Authors neglected to identify the challenges for CE implementation which is imperative for policy development for CE implementation. Marques et al (2017) investigated the waste generated in the Portuguese footwear companies and confirmed that waste produced from footwear industry is aggressive for environment. Authors argued that new approach of design principles including 4R policies for greening the manufacturing practices may help to achieve competitive advantages.…”

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Circular economy practices in the leather industry: A practical step towards sustainable development

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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The concept of circular economy (CE), a recent popular global business trend, considerably minimizes waste and environmental pollution. However, studies exploring CE practices in the context of leather industry have been scant. To deal with this issue, this paper proposes a decision support framework for evaluating the challenges to CE practices in the context of leather industry. Best worst method, a generic decision support tool, is employed in the assessment process. The study findings reveal that "lack of financial support from authorities" is assigned the highest weight in the final ranking results. This indicates that the lack of financial facility poses a major challenge to the successful implementation of CE practices. The findings can assist industrial managers and authorities in taking the required actions to implement CE practices in the leather industry for the sustainable development of the leather sector.

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“…As a next step, all CE_A were classified according to three criteria. In more detail, the first criterion was the relevance of CE_A to the eight core CE strategies proposed in the relative literature, namely reduce, repair/maintenance, reuse, refurbish/remanufacture, recycle, recover/cascade, and safe extraction of biochemical feed and renewable energy [53,54], Lieder and Rashid, 2015; [33,51,[55][56][57][58]. Many of the strategies/principles are based on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's projects (EMF, 2016) which offer useful proposals for recirculating resources (see Table 2).…”

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A Framework for Assessing the Contribution of Firms to Circular Economy: a Triple-Level Approach

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This paper presents a framework for evaluating the progress of firms towards the implementation of circular economy (CE) strategies. Despite the current popularity of CE and the proliferation of suggested indicators and measurement frameworks for CE, there still remains a gap regarding the measurement of firms' contribution to the overall context of CE. The proposed framework aims at overcoming this gap by utilizing an evaluation matrix which is based on the three-level context of CE, the key "Rs" principles/strategies of CE, and material loops. To test the applicability of the proposed methodology, an empirical analysis was carried out in a sample of plastic industries. According to the findings, firms show a better performance at the macro-level than the other levels which should be substantially improved. In addition, the empirical analysis indicates that the proposed framework can be a practical tool for firms and interested parties to assess the CE level of firms.

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Leather wastes in the Portuguese footwear industry: new framework according design principles and circular economy

Cited by 19 publications

References 2 publications

The Stakeholders’ Perspective within the B Corp Certification for a Circular Approach

The Stakeholders’ Perspective within the B Corp Certification for a Circular Approach

Circular economy practices in the leather industry: A practical step towards sustainable development

A Framework for Assessing the Contribution of Firms to Circular Economy: a Triple-Level Approach

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