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Diverse paths to circularity: Clusters of circular food behaviors and their predictors 不同的循环路径:循环饮食行为的集群及其预测因素
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.016
Joana Wensing , Francesca Rubiconto , Angel Lazaro , Eveline van Leeuwen
{"title":"Diverse paths to circularity: Clusters of circular food behaviors and their predictors","authors":"Joana Wensing ,&nbsp;Francesca Rubiconto ,&nbsp;Angel Lazaro ,&nbsp;Eveline van Leeuwen","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A transition towards a circular food system requires large-scale changes in citizens' food-related behaviors such as growing, purchasing, sharing, and disposing of food products in a circular manner. Existing research has largely focused on specific behaviors in isolation, neglecting how these behaviors may interplay. Moreover, it remains unclear to what extent value orientations and socio-economic characteristics predict engagement in circular food behaviors. This study addresses these gaps by collecting data from <em>N</em> = 955 Dutch citizens to investigate whether different clusters of circular food behaviors exist and how values and socio-economic characteristics influence participation in these clusters. Using a combination of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, we identify three behavioral clusters with varying levels of intentional commitment to circularity: circular waste management, circular food consumption, and regenerative food behaviors. Our findings indicate that biospheric values consistently and positively predict engagement across all clusters, while hedonic values are strong negative predictors. Socioeconomic factors, such as education level and rural residency, showed varying effects. Based on these insights, we provide suggestions for targeted policies and interventions for a broader adoption of circular food behaviors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"58 ","pages":"Pages 91-99"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144510815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Sustainable production and consumption ease of robotic disassembly metric and information for digital product passports in flexible remanufacturing systems 柔性再制造系统中机器人拆卸度量和数字产品通行证信息的可持续生产和消费便利性
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-06-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.008
Terrin Pulikottil , Núria Boix Rodríguez , Wouter Sterkens , Jef R. Peeters
{"title":"Sustainable production and consumption ease of robotic disassembly metric and information for digital product passports in flexible remanufacturing systems","authors":"Terrin Pulikottil ,&nbsp;Núria Boix Rodríguez ,&nbsp;Wouter Sterkens ,&nbsp;Jef R. Peeters","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Circular economy principles, aimed at waste reduction and optimal resource usage, are set to increasingly utilize digital product passports (DPPs) to store sustainability and circularity-related data. However, critical questions remain regarding the types of information most crucial to facilitate Reuse, Refurbish, Repair, Remanufacturing and Recycling activities. This Information heavily depends on the intended treatment scheme like disassembly type. For instance, manual disassembly offers flexibility but is constrained by limited scalability and safety concerns, whereas robotic disassembly, although cost-efficient for repetitive tasks, is hindered by high capital costs and lacks adaptability. Flexible human-robot cooperative systems present a potential solution by balancing scalability, adaptability, and capital cost. Hence, ease of disassembly information and metrics tailored for such systems would not only benefit product designers in crafting circular designs, but also assist policymakers in assessing product circularity and aid remanufacturers in disassembly task scheduling and allocation. However, no metrics currently exist to assess the ease of disassembly when integrating both manual and robotic disassembly.</div><div>Therefore, this study addresses two key research questions: (i) What disassembly information is essential in the DPP for assessing human-robot cooperative disassembly, and (ii) Which metric effectively assesses the ease of human-robot cooperative disassembly using DPP-derived information? To answer these questions, the presented study introduces a demanufacturing cell for flexible remanufacturing systems (Re-FMS), criteria for assessing the feasibility of robotic disassembly and proposes the Robotic ease of Disassembly Metric (Re-DiM) to calculate the human-robot cooperative disassembly times. Finally, recommendations are formulated on essential ease of disassembly information required for DPPs and the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed metric is demonstrated by the application of Re-DiM metric for three distinct product groups: vacuum cleaners, e-bike batteries, and electric vehicle motors. The results present a quantitative comparison between manual and robotic disassembly times, identify the most effective disassembly approach and highlight product design challenges revealed by the metric specific to robotic disassembly for the use-case product groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"58 ","pages":"Pages 123-139"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144517368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Environmental sustainability assessment of a biorefinery platform utilizing black soldier Fly larvae for organic waste valorization 利用黑虻幼虫进行有机废物增值的生物精炼平台的环境可持续性评估
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.007
Behnam Hosseingholilou , Barat Ghobadian , Ali Motevali , Maryam Kamali , Morten Birkved , Benyamin Khoshnevisan
{"title":"Environmental sustainability assessment of a biorefinery platform utilizing black soldier Fly larvae for organic waste valorization","authors":"Behnam Hosseingholilou ,&nbsp;Barat Ghobadian ,&nbsp;Ali Motevali ,&nbsp;Maryam Kamali ,&nbsp;Morten Birkved ,&nbsp;Benyamin Khoshnevisan","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The bioconversion of organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) via black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) offers an efficient solution for sustainable waste management and energy challenges in emerging economies and low- and middle- income countries. In this context, the present study examines alternative biorefinery approaches to sustain biodiesel production along with animal feed from BSFL cultivated on OFMSW. These include different processes for larval drying (microwave and a combined infrared-hot air device), oil extraction (mechanical and solvent-based methods), and biodiesel production (conventional and ultrasound-assisted transesterification). Following the technical evaluation, a consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA) was conducted as early environmental sustainability guidance to examine the environmental performance of waste-to-biofuel scenarios. The system boundary was expanded to include the use phases via combustion of diesel-biodiesel blend as B20 blend. Anaerobic digestion (AD) and combined heat and power (CHP) system were applied across all scenarios to valorize the frass generated during BSFL rearing. The defatted protein-rich BSFL meal was processed and utilized as animal feed, while the digested frass was employed as organic fertilizer. The scenario with an infrared-hot air drier, solvent-based oil extraction, and ultrasound-assisted biodiesel production yielded optimal environmental outcomes, with avoided impacts across climate change, human health, ecosystem, and resource scarcity, measured as: −1248 kg CO<sub>2</sub> eq, −0.0013 DALY, −4.45 × 10<sup>−6</sup> species.yr, and − 7.06 USD2013 per tonne of OFMSW treated, respectively. The technology showed significant environmental benefits across most mid-point categories, with the greatest improvement in human non-carcinogenic toxicity (net value: −356.5 to −358.8 kg 1,4-DCB) due to landfill avoidance, except for terrestrial ecotoxicity, mainly driven by outdated, fuel-intensive transportation, which contributed 72 % of the induced impacts in this category. Moreover, compared to other biodiesel feedstocks like waste cooking oil, rapeseed oil and soybean oil, BSFL lipid, demonstrated superior performance across environmental impact categories, establishing them as a more sustainable feedstock alternative for biodiesel production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"58 ","pages":"Pages 46-74"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144481153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Absolute environmental sustainability assessments of long-lived systems: A review of challenges with the representation of time and future research directions 长寿命系统的绝对环境可持续性评估:时间表征和未来研究方向的挑战综述
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.006
Caroline Amalie Clausen , Michael Zwicky Hauschild , Anders Bjørn
{"title":"Absolute environmental sustainability assessments of long-lived systems: A review of challenges with the representation of time and future research directions","authors":"Caroline Amalie Clausen ,&nbsp;Michael Zwicky Hauschild ,&nbsp;Anders Bjørn","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment (AESA) various changes over time in e.g., technologies, environmental conditions, and socio-economic conditions are typically not explicitly considered. This may lead to a risk of invalid results and conclusions in assessments of product systems with a long lifetime (e.g., buildings), on the extent to which its future environmental impacts will be low enough. The aim of this study is to identify possible changes to AESA for improved representation of different types of changes throughout the lifetime of long-lived systems. First, we carried out a meta review of existing reviews of AESAs and dynamic life cycle assessments (LCAs) to compile pre-identified challenges related to the time dimension. Second, we identified and reviewed relevant AESA studies that specifically focus on long-lived systems to identify the current practices.</div><div>We identified 52 time-related challenges from the meta review and grouped them according to methodological- and stakeholder relevance. Most challenges are relevant for LCA development, including for researchers and practitioners. We found that most of the 14 identified AESA studies of long-lived systems focus on the representation of changes over time in the life cycle inventory phase, while changes over time in characterization factors, carrying capacities and the data for sharing the carrying capacities are rarely considered. Lastly, we offer suggestions for improvements to the current practice of AESA that can potentially address the identified challenges, such as consistent use of future scenarios (e.g., the shared socioeconomic pathways) throughout the phases of an AESA, e.g., for estimating prospective characterization factors and carrying capacities, and for sharing the carrying capacities. Our study contributes to the field of AESA by highlighting critical areas in need of future research to enable appropriate representation of time in studies of long-lived systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"58 ","pages":"Pages 140-150"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A systems approach to analysing drivers and barriers to waste-to-energy utilization in the Global South: The case of Cameroon 分析全球南方国家废物转化为能源的驱动因素和障碍的系统方法:喀麦隆的案例
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.004
Nkweauseh Reginald Longfor , Liang Dong , Tomonori Sudo , Xuepeng Qian
{"title":"A systems approach to analysing drivers and barriers to waste-to-energy utilization in the Global South: The case of Cameroon","authors":"Nkweauseh Reginald Longfor ,&nbsp;Liang Dong ,&nbsp;Tomonori Sudo ,&nbsp;Xuepeng Qian","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Waste-to-Energy (WtE) utilization presents a promising solution to the escalating global waste crisis. However, despite its notable technical potential, progress toward WtE implementation in the Global South remains limited. This study investigates the key drivers and barriers to WtE adoption in the global south, with a focus on Cameroon as a case study. Using a systems thinking approach—incorporating causal loop diagram analysis—and drawing on literature reviews, field surveys, and stakeholder interviews, this research identifies critical obstacles including financial investment uncertainty, weak policy and institutional frameworks, lack of stakeholder collaboration, and low public awareness. The persistence of symptomatic interventions, such as city cleanliness campaigns and waste collection improvements without systemic reform, reflects recurring patterns of “shifting the burden” and “fixes that fail,” which undermine long-term progress and sustain dependence on landfilling. To overcome these systemic traps, this study proposes a paradigm shift toward cohesive, multi-level strategies that combine short-term incentives with long-term institutional and infrastructural reforms. The findings provide valuable insights for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers seeking to advance sustainable, circular economy solutions in Cameroon and other Global South contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"58 ","pages":"Pages 30-45"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144329691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Assessing alternative fuels for heavy-duty trucks in the U.S. based on improved life cycle assessment 基于改进生命周期评估的美国重型卡车替代燃料评估
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.003
Chengjiang Li , Jiajia Zhang , Xiu Gu , Jing Yang , Quande Qin , Wei Zhang , Abbas Ali Chandio
{"title":"Assessing alternative fuels for heavy-duty trucks in the U.S. based on improved life cycle assessment","authors":"Chengjiang Li ,&nbsp;Jiajia Zhang ,&nbsp;Xiu Gu ,&nbsp;Jing Yang ,&nbsp;Quande Qin ,&nbsp;Wei Zhang ,&nbsp;Abbas Ali Chandio","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The United States is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the global transportation field. In response to the growing challenges of climate change and the rising emissions from the freight sector, the U.S. is actively exploring alternative fuel pathways. This study develops an improved life cycle assessment integrating the Aspen Plus process simulation, life cycle assessment, and system dynamics model. Seven different fuel types for heavy-duty trucks are assessed from resource, environmental, and economic perspectives. Considering technological advances and other influencing factors, the study predicts the deployment trends of alternative fuels in the United States. The results show that liquefied natural gas and biomass-based methanol consume the most energy and water. Hydrogen fuel cell and electricity-based methanol achieve the lowest life cycle carbon emissions and global warming potential. From an economic perspective, liquefied natural gas currently offers the lowest total cost of ownership, whereas electricity-based methanol has the lowest environmental costs. Moreover, as e-fuel technology advances, hydrogen fuel cell and electricity-based methanol costs are expected to fall. Therefore, the U.S. is suggested to accelerate infrastructure improvements and strengthen the promotion of low-carbon alternative fuel heavy-duty trucks to achieve carbon reduction targets in the transportation sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"58 ","pages":"Pages 1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144288845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Framework for metamodel-driven integration of life cycle assessment and agent-based modeling 元模型驱动的生命周期评估和基于代理的建模集成框架
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.005
Agnese Fuortes , Carlos Felipe Blanco Rocha , Joris T.K. Quik , Lynn de Jager , Willie Peijnenburg
{"title":"Framework for metamodel-driven integration of life cycle assessment and agent-based modeling","authors":"Agnese Fuortes ,&nbsp;Carlos Felipe Blanco Rocha ,&nbsp;Joris T.K. Quik ,&nbsp;Lynn de Jager ,&nbsp;Willie Peijnenburg","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The energy transition brings about complex environmental and societal changes that require robust science-based policy guidance. Conventional Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods to evaluate the implications of these changes often fail to capture the dynamic interactions among energy systems, human behavior, and environmental impacts, leading to potentially misleading or oversimplified conclusions. This study introduces a new framework for integrating societal change into LCA using Agent-Based Modeling (ABM). Our approach leverages LCA metamodels, integrated with the ABM via defined linking parameters, to enable real-time feedback between agent decisions and environmental outcomes, while minimizing computational demands. We illustrate the applications of this framework in a photovoltaic case study, examining how end-of-life choices affect abiotic depletion and climate change. The ABM-LCA integration employs metamodels with high predictive performance, achieving R<sup>2</sup> values of 0.95 for abiotic depletion and 0.82 for climate change. Linking parameters are based on the number of PV modules entering different end-of-life pathways. Societal change, as modeled in the ABM, is driven by the assumption that increased awareness of environmental impacts promotes circular behaviors. The photovoltaic case study provides an illustrative exploration of how consumer choices may affect environmental impacts, such as abiotic depletion and climate change, and how these impacts, in turn, may shape future consumer behavior. This work highlights the value of using a metamodel-driven, integrated ABM-LCA modeling framework for decision-making in complex systems, uncovering unexpected system behaviors and offering insights into sustainable transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"58 ","pages":"Pages 14-29"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144313515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Meal planning under uncertainty: How shopping frequency affects food waste 不确定条件下的膳食计划:购物频率如何影响食物浪费
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.015
M.A. van Rooijen, J.C. Gerdessen, G.D.H. Claassen, S.L.J.M. de Leeuw
{"title":"Meal planning under uncertainty: How shopping frequency affects food waste","authors":"M.A. van Rooijen,&nbsp;J.C. Gerdessen,&nbsp;G.D.H. Claassen,&nbsp;S.L.J.M. de Leeuw","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food waste is the undesired result of multiple household food management routines. To reduce this food waste, interventions typically promote either food waste prevention or food waste recovery behaviours. These behaviours can be contradictory when it comes to shopping practices. Food waste prevention strategies suggest shopping for multiple days at once to benefit from planning and coordinate food packages with the needs of several days, whereas food waste recovery advocates for more frequent shopping trips to account for the unpredictability of everyday life. This study isolates the impact of shopping frequencies on food waste, assessing its effects across varying levels of uncertainties related to who will be present for dinner. A mathematical meal planning model is formulated to generate dinner meal plans and shopping lists by selecting combinations of recipes while considering nutritional adequacy and package sizes. The model uses a rolling horizon approach to simulate meal planning for household situations that are facing varying uncertainties in ingredient needs. As a base case, the model is run over a 21-day horizon for a household of four persons. The analysis reveals a trade-off between the flexibility of frequent shopping and the benefits of coordinating food purchases. Households with higher uncertainty in food requirements benefit from more frequent shopping compared to those with more stable needs, with total food waste across shopping frequencies ranging from 0–52 grams, 46–300 grams, and 50–900 grams per 21-day horizon for low-, medium-, and high-uncertainty household profiles, respectively. Moreover, the findings show that food waste can be minimized to 3 grams per day across all uncertainty levels by selecting recipes based on the food items already in stock at home. These insights suggest that tailored shopping and meal planning strategies based on household uncertainty levels can substantially reduce food waste and inform targeted interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"57 ","pages":"Pages 403-412"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144263475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A framework for assessing and enhancing product circularity by translating circular design criteria into measurable requirements 通过将循环设计标准转化为可测量的需求来评估和增强产品循环性的框架
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.001
Jennifer Dreier , Stefan Perau , Gregor Hoepfner , Joerg Berroth , Michael Riesener , Alexander Keuper , Günther Schuh , Georg Jacobs
{"title":"A framework for assessing and enhancing product circularity by translating circular design criteria into measurable requirements","authors":"Jennifer Dreier ,&nbsp;Stefan Perau ,&nbsp;Gregor Hoepfner ,&nbsp;Joerg Berroth ,&nbsp;Michael Riesener ,&nbsp;Alexander Keuper ,&nbsp;Günther Schuh ,&nbsp;Georg Jacobs","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The transition towards a circular economy (CE) is increasingly influencing engineering practices and product development. However, the concept of circular product design remains difficult to grasp, with existing circular design criteria lacking specificity and measurability. This paper proposes a comprehensive framework to translate these vague criteria into measurable requirements for product development to assess and improve a product's suitability for a CE. The presented methodology involves a three-step approach: collecting and analyzing standards-derived requirements, assessing a product's suitability for various R-Strategies based on the requirements, and identifying improvement opportunities via action portfolios. An industrial use case involving a centrifuge for liquid separation and discussion of results within an industry consortium through a SWOT analysis validated the applicability of the framework. Within this research, a structured list of measurable requirements for a circular product design was derived from circular design criteria from standards in the field of CE. Based on this list of requirements, an assessment of a product's suitability for the four circular strategies reuse, repair, remanufacture and recycle was examined with repair showing the highest suitability. An action portfolio was developed from the assessment results, outlining possibilities for action to improve product design at identified weak spots. However, the practical implementation of these improvements and reassessment of the product are beyond the scope of this study. The developed framework has been reported to be comprehensive and easy-to-implement. The integration of a scale-based assessment approach achieved measurability of the requirements and ease of application. The transparent assessment process allowed product developers to trace the impact of individual requirement changes and to adjust the overall assessment by weighting requirements against each other. Although some subjectivity remained due to the scale-based assessment approach, documented guiding questions helped ensure consistency across various iterations of assessment. While further quantification could enhance precision, this research contributes to advancing the transition to a CE in industrial practice by better aligning product design with CE standards and principles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"58 ","pages":"Pages 75-90"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144480540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Multi-measure pathways for achieving carbon-neutral cement production 实现碳中和水泥生产的多措施途径
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.025
Garrett Clark, Matthew Davis, Amit Kumar
{"title":"Multi-measure pathways for achieving carbon-neutral cement production","authors":"Garrett Clark,&nbsp;Matthew Davis,&nbsp;Amit Kumar","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cement production continue to rise, making it the second-largest source of industrial GHG emissions. In this study, we develop a framework to evaluate several decarbonization technologies and scenarios to achieve carbon-neutral cement production. A case study for Canada was conducted using this developed framework. Decarbonization technologies are grouped into six categories (energy efficiency, fuel switching, alternative raw materials, alternative binders and chemistries, carbon capture and storage, and cement carbonation) and each is evaluated using a bottom-up technology-explicit energy model. The results show that carbon-neutral cement production can be achieved before 2050 with marginal abatement costs of −17 to −34 CAD/t CO<sub>2</sub>e and cumulative GHG emissions reductions of 199–242 Mt. CO<sub>2</sub>e, based on a carbon price of 170 CAD/t CO<sub>2</sub> by 2030. The results are comparable to roadmaps from other jurisdictions but with some important distinctions. Canada continues to have a higher clinker/cement ratio and lower alternative fuel consumption than other jurisdictions, meaning carbon capture and storage is expected to play a larger role in reducing GHG emissions. Furthermore, carbon neutrality cannot be achieved without carbonation or a similar offset. Therefore, it is important that all cement-producing regions begin formalizing a framework to guide the calculation of carbonation impacts and compile the information to support those calculations. Finally, a sensitivity analysis concluded that carbon pricing is required in every carbon-neutral scenario to achieve negative GHG emissions abatement costs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"57 ","pages":"Pages 355-374"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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