With scientific and technological advancements and the diversification of residents’ demands, the pace of electronic product replacement is accelerating, generating a rapidly increasing number of waste electronics.
Tingting Liu+3 more
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Industry 4.0 and Prospects of Circular Economy: A Survey of Robotic Assembly and Disassembly [PDF]
Despite their contributions to the financial efficiency and environmental sustainability of industrial processes, robotic assembly and disassembly have been understudied in the existing literature. This is in contradiction to their importance in realizing the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Estudio preliminar de la aplicación de varias técnicas de comunicación en diseños circulares [PDF]
Comunicació presentada al 23rd International Congress on Project Management and Engineering (Málaga, 10-12 July 2019).An effective Circular Economy strategy comprises demonstrate practical application, by including real life examples and emphasizing with
Mulet, Elena+2 more
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CircleChain: Tokenizing Products with a Role-based Scheme for a Circular Economy [PDF]
In a circular economy, tracking the flow of second-life components for quality control is critical. Tokenization can enhance the transparency of the flow of second-life components. However, simple tokenization does not correspond to real economic models and lacks the ability to finely manage complex business processes.
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Standardization Framework for Sustainability from Circular Economy 4.0 [PDF]
The circular economy (CE) is widely known as a way to implement and achieve sustainability, mainly due to its contribution towards the separation of biological and technical nutrients under cyclic industrial metabolism.
Aguayo-González, Francisco+4 more
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From awareness to practice : Insights from the managers of Finnish circular economy pioneering companies [PDF]
In recent years, research on circular economy has increased tremendously, as well as gained attention from governments and business practitioners. However, the knowledge of effective and efficient transition from a linear business model to circular ...
Nguyen, Phung Tieu, Timilsina, Binod
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Due to the widespread production of maize, the waste created by this crop has become a serious concern. This study applied the concept of waste circulation to the production of magnetic biochar from corn husk waste to remediate paraquat-contaminated ...
Sakonsupa Damdib+6 more
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Towards a Circular Economy via Intelligent Metamaterials [PDF]
The present study proposes the use of intelligent metasurfaces in the design of products, as enforcers of circular economy principles. Intelligent metasurfaces can tune their physical properties (electromagnetic, acoustic, mechanical) by receiving software commands.
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WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY IMPLEMENTATION ON COUNTRY’S WEALTH IN THE EUROPEAN UNION 27 COUNTRIES? : AN EMPIRICAL STUDY WITH EUROSTAT DATA [PDF]
Circular Economy is considered to be the most appropriate approach to achieve a sustained economy in a sustainable way. Although many scholars have investigated the impact of circular economy implementation on how it will contribute to a country’s ...
Almayzhar, Hauzaan
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Circular Economy Snapshot: Philips Light as a Service [PDF]
Philips, the Dutch lighting, healthcare and consumer lifestyle company and the world's largest lighting supplier, began its sustainability journey in the early 1990s when it set its first sustainability standards.
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