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Life Cycle Assessment of different end-of-life scenarios for footwear

The circular economy is an approach that seeks to maximise value and minimise waste in the use of resources, by creating a closed cycle of production and consumption. In some industrial sectors such as fashion...

Sustainability assessment of bio-based innovations: Monetizing externalities to facilitate decision-making towards a circular Bio-Economy

The transition to a circular bio-economy presents challenges for bio-based products in market competitiveness compared to fossil-based counterparts, due to higher research costs, production equipment expenses, and lower technical development. However, bio-based products offer potential...

Rethinking Product Design with the Ecodesign Evaluation Framework for Sustainable Innovation

Despite the efforts to encourage sustainable product design, the linear design approach still persists in the creation of many products. At present, there is still a limited number of genuinely sustainable products on the market,...

Enabling a circular economy for plastics: Life Cycle Assessment of Chemically Recycled Polyamide Multi-layer Packaging

Recycling technologies should aim to retain as much value in the material as possible, in line with the principles of the circular economy. Chemical recycling represents a technology with high potential to contribute to solving...

Proposal for a new look at the Business Model Canva to serve circular business models, a Literature Review.

The growing concern about the environmental impacts resulting from the linear economic model has driven the search for sustainable alternatives, highlighting the circular economy as a promising approach. However, the difficulty in implementing circular business...

The Influence of Innovation on the Construction of Circular Business Models, a Systematic Review of the Literature

This article presents a systematic review of the literature on how innovation and new technologies help in the creation and implementation of circular businesses. For the study, a five-step process was adopted to carry out...

Resource efficiency and circular economy integrated in a systematic framework tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises in the chemical industry

The use of energy and raw materials in the industrial sector is a major contributor to global warming. In Germany, the chemical industry accounts for approximately one third of the total annual industrial electricity demand....

A Cradle-to-Grave Life Cycle Assessment of a Graphene-based Supercapacitor

Recent energy crises are mainly connected to the present geopolitical panorama, as well as to depletion of non-renewable resources and environmental degradation, posing the global energy supply chain under pressure. According to some observers, this...

Workshop 06: Toolkit for Material Circularity and Product Life Cycle: Development of circular products over the entire life cycle using the MCI methodology

This workshop provides participants with an understanding of Circular Economy with focus on practical applications and solutions with the use of a Toolkit that integrates the Material Circularity Indicator (MCI) by Ellen MacArthur Foundation into...

Life Cycle Assessment of CARBIOS enzymatic biorecycling technology: powering PET plastic and textile circularity

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most used polyester plastics in a broad range of applications. However, like other plastics, it is prone to leakage into the environment and post-consumer PET waste is not...

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