{"title":"You Can’t Go Circular Alone – A Stakeholder Approach to Circular Innovation","authors":"Anja Eisenreich, J. Füller","doi":"10.55845/hkke5160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55845/hkke5160","url":null,"abstract":"Circular solutions in industrial companies strongly depend on an interlinked network of diverse stakeholders. Therefore, innovations in the field of a circular economy are difficult to achieve in traditional innovation processes. They rather require an open innovation approach involving internal and external stakeholders in co-creations. This perspective article gives first insights on which stakeholders to involve, how to involve them, and how to overcome barriers. Research- and practice-based experience shows that diverse stakeholders should be selected based on the needs of the specific innovation context and are best involved in a network approach, possibly combined with crowdsourcing. A three-step process is suggested to overcome organizational barriers and to successfully anchor circular innovations in the company. As most firms are not experienced in open circular innovation yet, this article aims at giving them first insights on the topic to support them on their way toward a circular economy","PeriodicalId":100245,"journal":{"name":"Circular Economy","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85911951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consumer Perceptions of Product Lifetimes and Labelling: Implications for Introducing a Durability Label","authors":"L. Milios, Carl Dalhammer","doi":"10.55845/ahfr5526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55845/ahfr5526","url":null,"abstract":"Extending the lifetime of products enables material resource savings and provides an effective resource efficiency strategy within a circular economy paradigm. Although consumer demand for longer lasting products that can be easily repaired has been on the rise, it is not certain that consumers are fully able to identify such products and willing to pay a premium for them. France introduced a mandatory product repairability index in 2021 and plans to introduce a mandatory product durability index by 2024. The reasoning was to allow consumers to benchmark products, and to provide incentives for manufacturers to design durable and repairable products. This initiative would most likely speed up activities for developing a harmonised European Union (EU) labelling scheme to avoid the possibility that various EU countries start their own schemes, which could be problematic for business within the EU single market. However, there is uncertainty regarding how to best display a durability label for influencing consumer choice. This contribution reviews the literature on product durability information and labelling, addressing consumer perceptions on durability labelling and whetherthe provision of durability information is taken into account in purchasing decisions. Potential implications in durability labelling implementation are discussed, concluding the article with suggestions for overcoming potential implementation challenges.","PeriodicalId":100245,"journal":{"name":"Circular Economy","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75202028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Circular Economy Rebound: The Third Wheel on the Date Between Circularity and Sustainability","authors":"P. Zerbino","doi":"10.55845/ureh6873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55845/ureh6873","url":null,"abstract":"The Circular Economy Rebound (CER) effect is a phenomenon that can compromise the capability of a Circular Economy to achieve its intended benefits. Its occurrence can lead to firms overstating their environmental performance and being prone to greenwashing. From a broader point of view, it jeopardises sustainability and economic prosperity from the circular transition and can hinder the decoupling between production and virgin resource extraction. Thus, CER may play a pivotal role in micro and macroeconomic decision-making and policy-making in a Circular Economy. Yet, it is largely unknown, and the search for concrete solutions to limit its occurrence and mitigate its effects is strongly overlooked. Accordingly, this perspective paper aims to increase awareness about CER and tease academics, practitioners, and policymakers to join forces and develop holistic, actionable solutions to manage this detrimental unintended consequence of establishing circularity.","PeriodicalId":100245,"journal":{"name":"Circular Economy","volume":"146 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88637941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entrepreneurship in International Context: Trends and Coping With Eco-Entropy","authors":"R. Isaak","doi":"10.55845/hiyw8918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55845/hiyw8918","url":null,"abstract":"The rupture of the international system by the Ukranian war provides ecopreneurial opportunities for circular economies given gaps in national sovereignties laid bare by protectionism. The entropy of a full range of human needs from jobs to housing, etc. can be countered with sustainable, ‘green-green’ start-up designs stimulated by state policies yielding chances for ‘individual sovereignty’ and positive future perspectives.","PeriodicalId":100245,"journal":{"name":"Circular Economy","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89986345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Circularity, Complexity and (Elements of) Hope","authors":"Harald Desing, N. Blum","doi":"10.55845/wnhn7338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55845/wnhn7338","url":null,"abstract":"A truly sustainable circular economy is more than just recycling, making it a complex matter. We argue that reducing complexity will ease the path to circular economy. Complexity reduction potential lies in lower material diversity, increasing accessibility and intuitive use for consumers, as well as simplifying business operations.","PeriodicalId":100245,"journal":{"name":"Circular Economy","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85661181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circular EconomyPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cec.2022.100013
Shuyuan Chen , Mengjun Chen , Jiancheng Shu , Yi Deng
{"title":"Comparative analysis of recycling modes of power batteries based on extended producer-responsibility principle","authors":"Shuyuan Chen , Mengjun Chen , Jiancheng Shu , Yi Deng","doi":"10.1016/j.cec.2022.100013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cec.2022.100013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To improve the effectiveness of recycling, echelon utilization, and recovery mechanism of waste power batteries (WPBs), 12 recycling modes were proposed based on extended producer-responsibility principle. By employing profit and sensitivity analyses, we found that resource-recovery companies (Rs) are the key for recycling, echelon utilization, and recovery mechanism. For R, the high resale price of waste LiNi<sub><em>x</em></sub>Mn<sub><em>y</em></sub>Co<sub>1−<em>x</em>−<em>y</em></sub>O<sub>2</sub> batteries was not conducive to recovering waste batteries. However, the recycling behavior of R was beneficial for resisting the risk of high resale price of waste LiNi<sub><em>x</em></sub>Mn<sub><em>y</em></sub>Co<sub>1−<em>x</em>−<em>y</em></sub>O<sub>2</sub> batteries. This condition increased the profits by saving on the buying cost and reselling of WPBs to echelon-utilization companies. Following the decrease in the number of recyclers in the recycling system, the profits of R also increased. However, when the proportion of recycled waste LiNi<sub><em>x</em></sub>Mn<sub><em>y</em></sub>Co<sub>1−<em>x</em>−<em>y</em></sub>O<sub>2</sub> batteries was 100%, the profits of R faced risks due to the high resale price of waste LiNi<sub><em>x</em></sub>Mn<sub><em>y</em></sub>Co<sub>1−<em>x</em>−<em>y</em></sub>O<sub>2</sub> batteries. For other recyclers, only the power-battery manufacturers (Ms) were willing to reduce the resale price of waste LiNi<sub><em>x</em></sub>Mn<sub><em>y</em></sub>Co<sub>1−<em>x</em>−<em>y</em></sub>O<sub>2</sub> batteries to let R earn profit because R supplied regenerated materials to M at a lower price than the material companies. This condition created a cycle for WPB recovery and reduced the use of raw materials. Thus, Mode M–R was considered as the optimal recycling mode.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100245,"journal":{"name":"Circular Economy","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100013"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773167722000139/pdfft?md5=996fa7ef34d37fcfdb9ae549cb6bc055&pid=1-s2.0-S2773167722000139-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75644712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circular EconomyPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cec.2022.100012
Mengmeng Wang , Kang Liu , Jiadong Yu , Cong-Cong Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhang , Quanyin Tan
{"title":"Recycling spent lithium-ion batteries using a mechanochemical approach","authors":"Mengmeng Wang , Kang Liu , Jiadong Yu , Cong-Cong Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhang , Quanyin Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.cec.2022.100012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cec.2022.100012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Under the goal of global sustainable development, the new energy vehicle industry is evolving rapidly, leading to a proliferation of spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The recycling of LIBs is key to the sustainable development of the new energy industry, which is consistent with the concept of circular economy as well. And the green extraction of critical metals is the core part of the development. As an alternative to traditional pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy, emerging mechanochemical technology provides a new approach for high efficiency and green recycling of critical metals from spent LIBs, as it has the advantages of easy operation, flexibility, and short processing time. This article reviews the state of the art of mechanochemical technology in the recycling of critical metals from spent LIBs. Based on numerous practices, a framework including mechanochemical activation, organic reaction, inorganic reaction, redox reaction, gas-solid reaction, and solid-phase synthesis was constructed. These practices have proved that mechanochemical technology can provide a greener and more sustainable solution for recycling critical metals from spent LIBs. The metals can be transformed into high-value metal products at room temperature and under ordinary pressure, leading to efficient recycling of critical metals and significant reduction of wastes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100245,"journal":{"name":"Circular Economy","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100012"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773167722000127/pdfft?md5=fc08b02d731397588349629e7ae1e226&pid=1-s2.0-S2773167722000127-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82808464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circular EconomyPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cec.2022.100008
Jie Li , Shidi Zhang , Yanan Jiang
{"title":"End-of-life management of electric and electronic equipment: A literature review based on mapping knowledge domains","authors":"Jie Li , Shidi Zhang , Yanan Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.cec.2022.100008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cec.2022.100008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Electronic waste (e-waste) refers to obsolete electronic and electrical equipment and its materials. Due to the complex structure and composition of e-waste, improper disposal may generate substances harmful to humans and the environment and result in the loss of recyclable substances. To tackle the challenges in the end-of-life management of e-waste, there is a need for a systematic review of what the literature has investigated and found. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the extensive scientific literature related to e-waste management using a visualized approach. Overall, 8149 research articles were selected and exported from the Web of Science and then analyzed based on mapping knowledge domains. CiteSpace and Gephi, as effective tools, were utilized to identify hidden patterns and correlations from large and complex research outcomes from 1998 to 2019. This research discussed the evolution of global e-waste management, the knowledge-based network, research topics, frontiers and the cooperation relationships. Finally, this state-of-the-art review generated a few research directions that can be further investigated in this research field.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100245,"journal":{"name":"Circular Economy","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100008"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773167722000085/pdfft?md5=3e6c411f3a74d1072e61d36ace03382a&pid=1-s2.0-S2773167722000085-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85488835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circular EconomyPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cec.2022.100011
Narendra Singh , Oladele A. Ogunseitan
{"title":"Disentangling the worldwide web of e-waste and climate change co-benefits","authors":"Narendra Singh , Oladele A. Ogunseitan","doi":"10.1016/j.cec.2022.100011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cec.2022.100011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The benefits of consumer electronic products have transformed every societal sector worldwide. However, the adverse impacts of electronic waste (e-waste) disproportionately affect low-income communities and marginalized ecosystems in nations with economies in transition. The embodied carbon footprint of new electronic products, especially information and communications technology (ICT) devices, is an important source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for 67% ± 15% of total lifetime emissions, instigated by mineral mining, manufacturing, and supply chain transportation. We estimate that between 2014 and 2020, embodied GHG emissions from selected e-waste generated from ICT devices increased by 53%, with 580 million metric tons (MMT) of CO<sub>2</sub>e emitted in 2020. Without specific interventions, emissions from this source will increase to ∼852 MMT of CO<sub>2</sub>e annually by 2030. Increasing the useful lifespan expectancy of electronic devices by 50%–100% can mitigate up to half of the total GHG emissions. Such outcomes will require coordination of eco-design and source reduction, repair, refurbishment, and reuse. These strategies can be a key to efforts towards climate neutrality for the electronics industry, which is currently among the top eight sectors accounting for more than 50% of the global carbon footprint.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100245,"journal":{"name":"Circular Economy","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100011"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773167722000115/pdfft?md5=03dc95b22480ebd613ea5a4a6e3b2c62&pid=1-s2.0-S2773167722000115-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87849646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Circular EconomyPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cec.2022.100014
Honggui Han , Qiyu Zhang , Fangyu Li , Yongping Du , Yifan Gu , Yufeng Wu
{"title":"Metallic product recognition with dual attention and multi-branch residual blocks-based convolutional neural networks","authors":"Honggui Han , Qiyu Zhang , Fangyu Li , Yongping Du , Yifan Gu , Yufeng Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.cec.2022.100014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cec.2022.100014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Visual recognition technologies based on deep learning have been gradually playing an important role in various resource recovery fields. However, in the field of metal resource recycling, there is still a lack of intelligent and accurate recognition of metallic products, which seriously hinders the operation of the metal resource recycling industry chain. In this article, a convolutional neural network with dual attention mechanism and multi-branch residual blocks is proposed to realize the recognition of metallic products with a high accuracy. First, a channel-spatial dual attention mechanism is introduced to enhance the model sensitivity on key features. The model can focus on key features even when extracting features of metallic products with too much confusing information. Second, a deep convolutional network with multi-branch residual blocks as the backbone while embedding a dual-attention mechanism module is designed to satisfy deeper and more effective feature extraction for metallic products with complex characteristic features. To evaluate the proposed model, a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) dataset containing 9266 images in 18 categories and a waste household metal appliance (WHMA) dataset containing 11,757 images in 23 categories are built. The experimental results show that the accuracy reaches 94.31% and 95.88% in WEEE and WHMA, respectively, achieving high accuracy and high quality recycling.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100245,"journal":{"name":"Circular Economy","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100014"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773167722000140/pdfft?md5=13a787cc567184762ed8c2089983fa84&pid=1-s2.0-S2773167722000140-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77539343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}