Sustainable Consumption and Production: Introduction to Circular Economy and Beyond

How does the circular economy contribute to the pursuit of Agenda 2030? A systematic literature review

“…Conceptual 3 [22,30,32] Literature review 2 [17,20] Empirical 13 [15,16,18,19,21,23,24,25,26,27,28,2931] Concerning empirical research, most of studies were conducted in Italy (7), Finland (2), and England (2) (Figure 2).…”

“…Then, we extracted, summarized and analysed the results of the studies to identify the main findings and further research. The authors identify five themes describing the link between circular economy and Sustainable Development Goals (Figure 3): circular transition [24,30,25,26,31]; waste management [15,16,17,18]; circular economy' progress and challenges [20,23,28]; supply chain management [19,22]; circular food systems [21,27,32] and sustainable automotive industry [29].…”

“…The Circular food systems theme highlights how it is possible through a circular economy model to implement sustainable production and consumption, in line with objective 12 of the 2030 Agenda [32]. This category includes the research conducted by Yakovleva et al [21], which aims to identify current and projected supply and demand challenges in regions, map gaps in developing regions and identify approaches to overcome supply challenges using CE principles, especially life cycle assessment.…”

Measuring consumer effort in circular economy initiatives in the food domain: An exploratory analysis

“…The implementation of CE in the agro-food sector represents a great opportunity for transitioning into a food system that may help to achieve sustainable models of production and consumption [ [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] ]. As for the latter, the most frequent circular initiatives in the food sector are those aiming at reducing the amount of waste by recycling food as nutrients, and making by-products out of them [ 4 , 10 ].…”