Towards a more direct policy feedback in circular economy monitoring via a societal needs perspective

Alaerts, Luc; Acker, Karel Van; Rousseau, Sandra; Jaeger, Simon De; Moraga, Gustavo Longaray; Dewulf, Jo; Meester, Steven De; Passel, Steven Van; Compernolle, Tine; Bachus, Kris; Vrancken, Karl C.; Eyckmans, Johan

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“…Identification of circularity indicators (C‐indicators) to monitor the effects of CE adoption and the analysis of their purposes, scopes, and usages (Saidani et al, 2019). Bridging the gap between microlevel and macrolevel indicators for monitoring the progress towards the circular economy by introducing meso‐level indicators to provide more direct feedback for policymakers (Alaerts et al, 2019).…”

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Circular economy business models: The state of research and avenues ahead

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This study investigates how the circular economy and business models are related in the current business and management literature. Based on bibliometric analytical procedures, 253 articles were retrieved from the Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect scientific databases. The articles were analyzed according to network analysis principles, and key terms were mapped into a network. We used VOSviewer to build the network, explore the most-researched terms and their relationships, and identify less-explored terms and research gaps. We furthermore conducted a qualitative review of selected publications to provide an illustration of quantitative results and delve deeper into the research topics. The main findings revealed the networks of current topics as they appear in the publications such as business models, the circular economy, circular business models, value, supply chain, transition, resource, waste, and reuse, and their most prevalent relationships. The results also highlighted several emerging topics such as those connected with managerial, supply-side, demand-side, networking, performance, and contextual considerations of circular business models.

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“…There is also a call for developing measurements to provide more direct feedback for policymakers. In particular, meso‐level indicators may bridge the gap between the macro and micro levels, while evaluating the progress towards the circular economy based on the fulfillment of varying societal needs (Alaerts et al, 2019).…”

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Circular economy business models: The state of research and avenues ahead

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“…Related studies focused mainly on: the essence and origin of the concept of CE [10][11][12][13]; the barriers to and conditions of its implementation [4,[14][15][16][17][18][19]; planning issues, including the formulation of a CE development strategy at various levels of management [4,11,14,18,[20][21][22][23][24]; promoting good practices and models of CE implementation [13,14,23,25,26]; and comparing the circular economy with other social and economic concepts [12,13,27,28]. Particular attention was also devoted to issues of monitoring and evaluating the effects of a circular economy [14,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40].…”

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How Circular Are the European Economies? A Taxonomic Analysis Based on the INEC (Index of National Economies’ Circularity)

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2020

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In this paper, the aggregate index of national economies’ circularity (INEC) was proposed and empirically verified. For this purpose, the taxonomic linear ordering method was used, which is a multi-criteria decision-making procedure. This method replaces the analysis of the phenomenon described by a set of indicators with an analysis using one aggregate indicator: the so-called ‘synthetic metric’. Based on 14 circular economy indicators that are available in the Eurostat database, the circularity indexes were constructed for 24 EU countries (including the United Kingdom). This allowed the author, on the one hand, to create a ranking of the countries, and on the other, to assign them to four groups, which were characterized by a similar level of circularity. This paper attempts to answer the following questions: how circular are the European economies? What are the main challenges in achieving circularity in Europe? Taking into account the INEC range [0,1], it should be noted that the level of circularity in the analysed European countries is low (an average of 0.3021). Therefore, the paper indicates the areas requiring improvement in this respect.

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“…In terms of municipal waste, the Czech Republic produced 5.78 million tonnes in 2018 (corresponding to 544 kg/inhabitant) as reported by the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech, and 3.73 million tonnes (corresponding to 351 kg/inhabitant) as reported by the Eurostat (CENIA, 2019 [50]; Eurostat, 2020 [23]). Of this, 2.81 million tonnes were mixed municipal waste (corresponding to 264 kg/inhabitant) (CENIA, 2019 [50]) 22 . Although the generation of municipal waste has increased during the past decade, the generation of mixed municipal waste has been decreasing.…”

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“…In 2018, backfilling constituted 26% of the total waste treatment in the Czech Republic(Eurostat, 2020[51]). This undermines the higher value of recycling resources 22. The Eurostat database does not report the corresponding statistics for mixed MSW, nor does it define how mixed municipal waste could be calculated from the available municipal waste treatment options.…”

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Towards a national strategic framework for the circular economy in the Czech Republic

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This work is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of OECD member countries. This document, as well as any data and any map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area.

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Towards a more direct policy feedback in circular economy monitoring via a societal needs perspective

Cited by 55 publications

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Circular economy business models: The state of research and avenues ahead

Circular economy business models: The state of research and avenues ahead

How Circular Are the European Economies? A Taxonomic Analysis Based on the INEC (Index of National Economies’ Circularity)

Towards a national strategic framework for the circular economy in the Czech Republic

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