The UK waste input–output table: Linking waste generation to the UK economy

Salemdeeb, Ramy; Al‐Tabbaa, Abir; Reynolds, Christian

doi:10.1177/0734242x16658545

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“…Within Europe there is only one article related to industrial symbiosis and eco-parks and it concerns Sweden [54]. There are also publications in Spain [55], Italy [56,57], the United Kingdom [58] and Germany [59]. The focus is mainly on studies related to recycling and waste management, analysing the economic impacts of using the CE.…”

Section: Circular Economymentioning

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A Systematic Literature Review of Bio, Green and Circular Economy Trends in Publications in the Field of Economics and Business Management

2018

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The concepts of bioeconomy, green economy and circular economy share the common objective of developing a sustainable economy, and they attract enormous political, academic, social and business interest. However, an analysis of these concepts in the fields of economics and business management is lacking. The objective of this article is to classify the publications on these topics by subject of study, to analyse trends in publications and to guide researchers interested in selecting articles. The review was performed using Scopus for the period 1960 to 2017. Four hundred and forty-nine publications were obtained and classified into 17 categories. The results show that the existing literature is rich in analysing implemented policies and issues related to the strategies and organizational models of companies looking for a more sustainable path, and research in China and the European Union is highlighted. However, there is still a long way to go in researching implemented case studies and evaluating the economic impact of these concepts. For this to happen, the need to promote, encourage and support companies to implement cleaner production and approach a more sustainable path must be prioritised. Possible gaps in current research that allow future lines of work are also identified.

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Section: Circular Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Literature Review of Bio, Green and Circular Economy Trends in Publications in the Field of Economics and Business Management

2018

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“…The data were converted into a basic price in order to match the input output analytical table format. Conversion coefficients used were obtained from Salemdeeb et al (2016).…”

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An environmental evaluation of food waste downstream management options: a hybrid LCA approach

Salemdeeb

Daina

Reynolds

et al. 2018

Int J Recycl Org Waste Agricult

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Purpose Food waste treatment methods have been typically analysed using current energy generation conditions. To correctly evaluate treatment methods, they must be compared under existing and potential decarbonisation scenarios. This paper holistically quantifies the environmental impacts of three food waste downstream management options-incineration, composting, and anaerobic digestion (AD). Methods The assessment was carried out using a novel hybrid input-output-based life cycle assessment method (LCA), for 2014, and in a future decarbonised economy. The method introduces expanded system boundaries which reduced the level of incompleteness, a previous limitation of process-based LCA. Results Using the 2014 UK energy mix, composting achieved the best score for seven of 14 environmental impacts, while AD scored second best for ten. Incineration had the highest environmental burdens in six impacts. Uncertainties in the LCA data made it difficult determine best treatment option. There was significant environmental impact from capital goods, meaning current treatment facilities should be used for their full lifespan. Hybrid IO LCA's included additional processes and reduced truncation error increasing overall captured environmental impacts of composting, AD, and incineration by 26, 10 and 26%, respectively. Sensitivity and Monte Carlo analysis evaluate the methods robustness and illustrate the uncertainty of current LCA methods. Major implication: hybrid IO-LCA approaches must become the new norm for LCA. Conclusion This study provided a deeper insight of the overall environmental performance of downstream food waste treatment options including ecological burdens associated with capital goods.

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“…This model allows to expand EEIOA in relation to the interdependence between goods and waste disposal. Several studies applied the WIOA model to measure the direct and indirect waste of consumption at national level, such as Taiwan, France, and UK (Jensen et al 2013;Liao et al 2015;Beylot et al 2016b;Salemdeeb et al 2016). In a study at sub-national scale, Tsukui et al (2011Tsukui et al ( , 2017 developed an interregional WIOA to quantify the embodied waste generated by consumption patterns in the city of Tokyo.…”

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“…However, disaggregating sectors in EEIOA presents a challenge by itself because sectoral data may not be available at the required level of detail. This is particularly the case in waste input-output frameworks, in which many studies show a limited dataset to split and link waste treatment sectors to the rest of the economy (Salemdeeb et al 2016).…”

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Assessing circularity interventions: a review of EEIOA-based studies

Aguilar-Hernandez

Sigüenza-Sanchez

Donati

et al. 2018

Economic Structures

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In the early 1990s, the concept of circular economy was proposed by Pearce and Turner (1990) as a model to transform the traditional open-ended economy into an ongoing closed-loop system from a material perspective. Since then, several scholars and practitioners have adopted multiple definitions for circularity (Winans et al. 2017). After considering 114 conceptual frameworks, Kirchherr et al. (2017) define it as an economic system that substitutes product end-of-life with a set of circularity interventions.Circularity interventions are actions or processes that preserve resources inside the economy (Lieder and Rashid 2016a;Bocken et al. 2017). Such actions are based on three principles (Ellen MacArthur Foundation 2013;Ghisellini et al. 2016): AbstractEnvironmentally extended input-output analysis (EEIOA) can be applied to assess the economic and environmental implications of a transition towards a circular economy. In spite of the existence of several such applications, a systematic assessment of the opportunities and limitations of EEIOA to quantify the impacts of circularity strategies is currently missing. This article brings the current state of EEIOA-based studies for assessing circularity interventions up to date and is organised around four categories: residual waste management, closing supply chains, product lifetime extension, and resource efficiency. Our findings show that residual waste management can be modelled by increasing the amount of waste flows absorbed by the waste treatment sector. Closing supply chains can be modelled by adjusting input and output coefficients to reuse and recycling activities and specifying such actions in the EEIOA model if they are not explicitly presented. Product lifetime extension can be modelled by combining an adapted final demand with adjusted input coefficients in production. The impacts of resource efficiency can be modelled by lowering input coefficients for a given output. The major limitation we found was that most EEIOA studies are performed using monetary units, while circularity policies are usually defined in physical units. This problem affects all categories of circularity interventions, but is particularly relevant for residual waste management, due to the disconnect between the monetary and physical value of waste flows. For future research, we therefore suggest the incorporation of physical and hybrid tables in the assessment of circularity interventions when using EEIOA.

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The UK waste input–output table: Linking waste generation to the UK economy

Cited by 37 publications

References 16 publications

A Systematic Literature Review of Bio, Green and Circular Economy Trends in Publications in the Field of Economics and Business Management

A Systematic Literature Review of Bio, Green and Circular Economy Trends in Publications in the Field of Economics and Business Management

An environmental evaluation of food waste downstream management options: a hybrid LCA approach

Assessing circularity interventions: a review of EEIOA-based studies

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