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, 2023 When production resources are considered significant economic variables, the circular economy (CE) is viewed as a closed-loop economic system. It is a sustainable development strategy based on limited resources that addresses urgent problems of ...
Heshmati, Almas, Mohsen Khezri
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Digitalizing Circular Economy through Blockchains: The Blockchain Circular Economy Index
Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering, 2023 The integration of circular economy (CE) models into everyday contexts generates huge amount of data involved in goods tracking and tokenization procedures.
Basile D. +3 more
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Critiques of the circular economy [PDF]
Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2021 AbstractThis paper presents a reasoned account of the critiques addressed to the circular economy and circular business models. These critiques claim that the circular economy has diffused limits, unclear theoretical grounds, and that its implementation faces structural obstacles.
Hervé Corvellec +2 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, Volume 9, Issue 12, Page 1962-1973, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Objectives Early‐ and late‐onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD and LOAD) share the same neuropathological traits but show distinct cognitive features. We aimed to explore baseline and longitudinal outcomes of global and domain‐specific cognitive function in a well characterized cohort of patients with a biomarker‐based diagnosis.
Adrià Tort‐Merino +16 more
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Bioplastics for a circular economy [PDF]
Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 Bioplastics - typically plastics manufactured from bio-based polymers - stand to contribute to more sustainable commercial plastic life cycles as part of a circular economy, in which virgin polymers are made from renewable or recycled raw materials. Carbon-neutral energy is used for production and products are reused or recycled at their end of life ...
Jan-Georg Rosenboom +2 more
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How circular is the circular economy? Analysing the implementation of circular economy in organisations [PDF]
Business Strategy and the Environment, 2020 AbstractCircular economy (CE) has become one of the most recent ways to address environmental sustainability. CE activities focus exclusively on one of three levels (macro level, meso level and micro level). The majority of CE research has focused on the macro and meso levels, whereas research on the micro level has been limited.
Maria Barreiro‐Gen, Rodrigo Lozano
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The Green Blockchains of Circular Economy [PDF]
Electronics, 2021 Eco-friendly systems are necessitated nowadays, as the global consumption is increasing. A data-driven aspect is prominent, involving the Internet of Things (IoT) as the main enabler of a Circular Economy (CE). Henceforth, IoT equipment records the system’s functionality, with machine learning (ML) optimizing green computing operations.
George Hatzivasilis +4 more
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, 2022 This contribution features the submission of one of the most important sustainability keywords to Springer's Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. It provides a definition and an introduction to the circular economy (CE). It describes key policies and regulatory interventions that are meant to promote the CE agenda.
Camilleri, Mark Anthony +2 more
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Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2021 This work aims to describe and analyze the new socio economic phenomenon of waste-based circularity. To describe this process of recovery and transformation of waste, which represents the basis of circular economy, it is necessary to understand the complex articulation of the production of goods and materials, their yield and their capacity of ...
Senatore, Gianluca, Teofili, Simone
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Consumers in the circular economy [PDF]
, 2020 The circular economy is poised to transform economic systems and contribute to sustainable development. Most of the attention has focussed on how production can become circular by developing innovative business models, processes and products that close material loops.
Camacho-Otero, Juana +3 more
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