“…The barriers preventing the implementation of CP by SEs are related to various aspects including: the lack of financial resources [7,8], the lack of interest in environmental issues, the lack of capital for investment in environmental practices, and the lack of knowledge by the medium and high managers that impact the final treatment of the product. Also, there is no concern with minimizing the waste generated by the production system [9][10][11][12]. The difficulties for SEs in adopting CP increase when there is need to save time and money, and when there is no guarantee of financial return because SEs A systematic review of the literature was performed via the Google Academic, Science Direct, Emerald, Scopus, and Scielo databases, using keywords: "cleaner production" and "overcome" and "barriers."…”