Mitigating the barriers of industrial symbiosis for waste management: An integrated decision-making framework for the textile and clothing industry

Abstract

Waste management in the textile and clothing (TAC) industry is a challenging issue due to high resource consumption and pollution generation. Therefore, the adoption of industrial symbiosis (IS) is the need of the hour for the TAC industry. However, the adoption of IS in emerging economies like India, Brazil, Bangladesh, etc. is limited due to various impediments. The present work aims to identify and analyse these barriers and develop mitigation strategies in the context of Indian TAC industry. Eighteen IS barriers have been identified and validated; and the interrelationships among them are studied by applying the ‘weighted influence non-linear gauge system (WINGS)’ method, which not only estimates the intensity of influence but also takes the self-strength of barriers into account. The results show that lack of trust amongst supply chain partners, lack of financial incentives from the government, lack of guidance from regularity bodies and industry associations and lack of consumer awareness are the most significant barriers. Additionally, the strategies to mitigate these barriers are developed based on a quadruple helix framework considering academia–-government–industry–society as the main actors. The findings of the study will be helpful for the TAC industry, policymakers and other concerned stakeholders in framing suitable strategies to improve the long-term waste management practices of the industry and to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Climate neutrality in agriculture food supply chain: an integrated WINGS-GRID framework

“…Since the objective was to evaluate the interrelationship between the constructs, methods like "interpretative structure modelling (ISM)", "total interpretative structural modelling (TISM)" and "Decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL)" are other approaches that can be used. However, ISM and TISM don't provide the intensity of interrelationship and hence, would not be able to answer RQ3 of this work (Yadav and Majumdar, 2023). On the other side, DEMATEL is an approach that creates a structural model through diagraphs and matrices and also provides intensity between the constructs under study.…”

“…The present study was conducted in three phases (Yadav and Majumdar, 2023). In the first phase, the identification of barriers was carried out from the literature using online databases EmeraldInsight, Scopus, Wiley, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar and IEEE Xplore with keywords related to the theme of the present work ("barriers" OR "challenges" OR "hindrances" OR "impediment") AND ("climate neutral" OR "climate neutrality") AND ("agriculture food supply chain" OR "agriculture supply chain" OR "food supply chain").…”

“…Similarly, masses (charges) and distance between them contribute to the force magnitude on the two elements (electric charges or masses) (Michnik, 2013). In recent times, the WINGS method has found application in fields like industrial symbiosis (Yadav and Majumdar, 2023), blockchain in healthcare (Govindan et al, 2022), green supply chain (Wang et al, 2021), reverse logistics (Kaviani et al, 2020) and project selection (Michnik, 2018). Hence, the present study utilized the WINGS method to study the barriers to the adoption of climate neutrality in Indian AFSC.…”

“…Thereafter, a focus group was created to elicit the relationships between the barriers for estimating the structural model based on the WINGS method. WINGS method was chosen as it fits the context of the study and had several advantages over other similar approaches (Govindan et al, 2022;Yadav and Majumdar, 2023). Since the objective was to evaluate the interrelationship between the constructs, methods like "interpretative structure modelling (ISM)", "total interpretative structural modelling (TISM)" and "Decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL)" are other approaches that can be used.…”

“…It lacks the consideration of the strength of the construct which in real scenarios along with the influencing power of the construct is a better measure while evaluating interrelationship and intensity amongst them (Michnik, 2013). This limitation of DEMATEL is overcome by the WINGS method which considers the both influence of a construct as well as its inherent strength (Govindan et al, 2022;Michnik, 2013;Yadav and Majumdar, 2023). Hence, the WINGS method was more suitable for this study considering its advantages over ISM, TISM and DEMATEL (Yadav and Majumdar, 2023).…”