The circular economy and circular economic concepts—a literature analysis and redefinition

Geisendorf, Sylvie; Pietrulla, Felicitas

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“…engineers, designers, managers) or policy-makersand its associated selection tool, are developed and experimented on several use cases published in literature. This actual challenge is in agreement with Behrens et al (2015) underlining the multitude of existing indicators can create confusion, or by Geisendorf and Pietrulla (2017) advancing the measurement of circularity is considered to play a crucial role in the transition, but there is no prevailing opinion on which operationalization to use. We do understand that finding suitable indicators can be a difficult task in the light of this important number of available C-indicators, but we argue it could be facilitated by the design of an appropriate classification scheme and associated selection tool.…”

Section: A Growing Need For Circularity Indicators: History and Curresupporting

confidence: 70%

“…evolution of energy consumption, added value of products and services, employment levels). Actually, the measurement of success of the implementation of CE loops should capture economic and environmental benefits (Geisendorf and Pietrulla, 2017). Overall, it has been assumed that benefits of CE adoption outweight the drawbacks regarding sustainable impacts, but some times it could result to negative impacts (Geissdoerfer et al 2017).…”

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A taxonomy of circular economy indicators

Saidani

Yannou

Leroy

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Implementing circular economy (CE) principles is increasingly recommended as a convenient solution to meet the goals of sustainable development. New tools are required to support practitioners, decision-makers and policy-makers towards more CE practices, as well as to monitor the effects of CE adoption. Worldwide, academics, industrialists and politicians all agree on the need to use CE-related measuring instruments to manage this transition at different systemic levels. In this context, a wide range of circularity indicators (Cindicators) has been developed in recent years. Yet, as there is not one single definition of the CE concept, it is of the utmost importance to know what the available indicators measure in order to use them properly. Indeed, through a systematic literature reviewconsidering both academic and grey literature -55 sets of C-indicators, developed by scholars, consulting companies and governmental agencies, have been identified, encompassing different purposes, scopes, and potential usages. Inspired by existing taxonomies of eco-design tools and sustainability indicators, and in line with the CE characteristics, a classification of indicators aiming to assess, improve, monitor and communicate on the CE performance is proposed and discussed. In the developed taxonomy including 10 categories, C-indicators are differentiated regarding criteria such as the levels of CE implementation (e.g. micro, meso, macro), the CE loops (maintain, reuse, remanufacture, recycle), the performance (intrinsic, impacts), the perspective of circularity (actual, potential) they are taking into account, or their degree of transversality (generic, sector-specific). In addition, the database inventorying the 55 sets of Cindicators is linked to an Excel-based query tool to facilitate the selection of appropriate indicators according to the specific user's needs and requirements. This study enriches the literature by giving a first need-driven taxonomy of C-indicators, which is experienced on several use cases. It provides a synthesis and clarification to the emerging and must-needed research theme of C-indicators, and sheds some light on remaining key challenges like their effective uptake by industry. Eventually, limitations, improvement areas, as well as implications of the proposed taxonomy are intently addressed to guide future research on C-indicators and CE implementation.

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Section: A Growing Need For Circularity Indicators: History and Curresupporting

confidence: 70%

Section: Definition Of the Categories For The Proposed Taxonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

A taxonomy of circular economy indicators

Saidani

Yannou

Leroy

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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475

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“…The idea of a more circular economy involves that the value and utility of products are extended and that production and consumption wastes are utilized as secondary resources, promis- (Geisendorf and Pietrulla 2017;Bocken et al 2017a). Nevertheless, a broadly accepted and precise definition of a CE is still lacking; rather, the concept is applied in different ways by stakeholders, depending on their specific interests (Murray et al 2017;Bocken et al 2017b;Lieder and Rashid 2016;MacArthur 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Also, positive employment effects are frequently mentioned as an important co-benefit of the CE (Stahel 2016;Wijkman and Skanberg 2015;MacArthur 2013). Additionally, the environmental implications, benefits, and trade-offs of a more circular economy are also widely debated (Pauliuk 2018;Geissdoerfer et al 2017;Geisendorf and Pietrulla 2017).…”

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Measuring Progress towards a Circular Economy: A Monitoring Framework for Economy‐wide Material Loop Closing in the EU28

Mayer

Haas

Wiedenhofer

et al. 2018

J of Industrial Ecology

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Summary The concept of a circular economy (CE) is gaining increasing attention from policy makers, industry, and academia. There is a rapidly evolving debate on definitions, limitations, the contribution to a wider sustainability agenda, and a need for indicators to assess the effectiveness of circular economy measures at larger scales. Herein, we present a framework for a comprehensive and economy‐wide biophysical assessment of a CE, utilizing and systematically linking official statistics on resource extraction and use and waste flows in a mass‐balanced approach. This framework builds on the widely applied framework of economy‐wide material flow accounting and expands it by integrating waste flows, recycling, and downcycled materials. We propose a comprehensive set of indicators that measure the scale and circularity of total material and waste flows and their socioeconomic and ecological loop closing. We applied this framework in the context of monitoring efforts for a CE in the European Union (EU28) for the year 2014. We found that 7.4 gigatons (Gt) of materials were processed in the EU and only 0.71 Gt of them were secondary materials. The derived input socioeconomic cycling rate of materials was therefore 9.6%. Further, of the 4.8 Gt of interim output flows, 14.8% were recycled or downcycled. Based on these findings and our first efforts in assessing sensitivity of the framework, a number of improvements are deemed necessary: improved reporting of wastes, explicit modeling of societal in‐use stocks, introduction of criteria for ecological cycling, and disaggregated mass‐based indicators to evaluate environmental impacts of different materials and circularity initiatives.

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“…A economia circular, portanto, é um conceito contemporâneo, dinâmico e que ainda está em construção (CNI, 2018), resultante da interconexão de ideias provenientes de diversas áreas do conhecimento HEKKERT, 2017). Diversas definições são encontradas na literatura, não havendo um consenso entre os autores (GEISENDORF; PIETRULLA, 2018;GEISSDOERFER et al, 2017;LIEDER;RASHID, 2016;MASI et al, 2018). Uma definição relevante ao contexto deste trabalho, porém, foi encontrada em Prieto-Sandoval et al, (2018).…”

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Economia circular e biomimética: uma análise no contexto de sistemas regenerativos

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A maneira de cuidar de nós mesmos e de nossas famílias, a maneira de sustentar isso e as gerações futuras de seres humanos, é cuidar da vida como um todo... A saúde da biosfera e o futuro da humanidade são inseparáveis" (WHAL, 2016 p.61) AGRADECIMENTOS Agradeço à Deus por ter me guiado e fortalecido até aqui.Aos meus pais Ademir e Marizeth, pela vida que me flui. À minha família de São Carlos e Cuiabá, por todo carinho, apoio e amor. Em especial, agradeço novamente minha mãe, que é meu porto seguro e minha maior inspiração, por estar sempre ao meu lado, torcendo, acreditando e me incentivando. Ao professor Dr. Aldo R. Ometto pela orientação, pelas contribuições e, em particular, pela oportunidade em fazer parte deste grupo de pesquisa. Aos meus colegas do Grupo de Pesquisa em Engenharia e Gestão do Ciclo de Vida e do Laboratório de Gestão de Operações, pela troca de conhecimento, pelo apoio profissional e pelos momentos de descontração. Obrigada por sempre me ampararem. Sem vocês, essa jornada com certeza não teria uma memória tão doce. À CAPES pela concessão do apoio financeiro, essencial para a viabilização desta pesquisa. À EMBRAPA pela disponibilidade e colaboração com o desenvolvimento deste trabalho. Agradeço também aos funcionários do Departamento de Engenharia Produção e do Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências da Engenharia Ambiental, por toda ajuda, paciência e direcionamento ao longo desses anos. A todos que de alguma maneira fizeram parte dessa caminhada, colaborando direta indiretamente para a realização do meu mestrado, meu mais sincero obrigada! RESUMO DUPIM, D. A. A. Economia circular e biomimética: uma análise no contexto de sistemas regenerativos. 2019. 99p. Dissertação (Mestrado) -Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, 2019.O sistema produtivo da sociedade atual é baseado em um modelo linear de extração produção-descarte, de alto gasto energético. Este modelo vem sendo questionado do ponto de vista econômico, social e ambiental, e as iniciativas empregadas até o momento não são suficientes para lidar com desafios atuais. Para entregar impactos positivos de longo prazo, é preciso ir além das melhorias incrementais, transformando fundamentalmente o paradigma existente. Para isso, é necessário transitar para um modelo fechado e regenerativo, como proposto pela economia circular. A implementação efetiva das estratégias circulares, contudo, requer mudanças sistêmicas e complexas em vários níveis. Esse processo de transição pode ser facilitado pela biomimética, um movimento que incentiva o aprendizado e a integração com a natureza ao utilizar as estratégias e os designs biológicos como inspiração para solucionar problemas humanos em uma ampla gama de aplicação. Por isso, verificou-se como a biomimética está relacionada com a economia circular, em termos conceituais e práticos. Como resultado, foi possível identificar os diversos níveis de sobreposição existentes entre a biomimética e a economia circular, e perceber que ambos os conceitos estão relacionados ao de...

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The circular economy and circular economic concepts—a literature analysis and redefinition

Cited by 322 publications

References 62 publications

A taxonomy of circular economy indicators

A taxonomy of circular economy indicators

Measuring Progress towards a Circular Economy: A Monitoring Framework for Economy‐wide Material Loop Closing in the EU28

Economia circular e biomimética: uma análise no contexto de sistemas regenerativos

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