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Circling the Archetype: Tensions Limiting the Transformation to a Circular Economy

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines key tensions and the archetypal paradox that prevent the transformation to a circular economy (CE) across individual, organizational, and systems levels, problematizing CE assumptions. Tension manifestations are analyzed using a qualitative case study across eight diverse industries and geographies.
Helleke Heikkinen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agentic AI and Circular Procurement Performance: An Empirical Study

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizations that practice circular procurement in this rapidly changing world face many uncertainties. However, emerging digital technologies, such as agentic AI, can help manage resources and improve responsiveness to better serve both internal and external customers.
Surajit Bag   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Adoption of Sufficiency Practices in Sustainability‐Oriented Businesses: A Mixed‐Methods Study of Enablers, Challenges, and Benefits

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sufficiency is increasingly seen as a necessary complement to efficiency and circularity strategies to help prevent the transgression of planetary boundaries. However, empirical evidence on their broader relevance in business remains limited.
Maike Gossen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operationalizing Circular Supply Chain Management: Scale Development and Empirical Validation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study addresses the conceptual fragmentation and the lack of a measurement tool in circular supply chain management (CSCM), a field in which confusion with traditional sustainability strategies limits operational progress. The objective is to develop and validate a measurement instrument capable of capturing the transition toward the ...
José Moyano‐Fuentes   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Textile Waste Lifecycle

open access: yesClothing and Textiles Research Journal, 1997
With growing attention to environmental responsibility towards solid waste management, the textile and apparel industry has expanded its efforts to reduce disposal of post-producer textile waste in landfills. At the same time, finding alternative methods for the disposal of post-consumer textile waste is assuming greater importance.
Tanya Domina, Kathy Koch
openaire   +2 more sources

Analysis of the situation with textile waste [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
As a result of global population growth and rising living standards, textile fiber production and consumption are projected to continue to grow and global fiber production is expected to reach 156 million tonnes by 2030. The increase in the production and consumption of textile products causes an increase in the amount of generated textile waste.
Zhezhova, Silvana   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Textile waste valorization using submerged filamentous fungal fermentation [PDF]

open access: yesChemical Engineering Research and Design, 2018
Textile waste is one type of municipal solid waste growing rapidly in recent years. In Hong Kong, 306 t of textile waste were produced daily in 2015 and more than 90% of these ended up in landfill. This is the first paper which utilizes textile wastes as
Huaimin Wang   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Capitate hairs on cotton textile wastes

American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, 1980
Bract and leaf samples from growing cotton plants and from cotton textile wastes were examined by scanning electron microscopy to determine if intact capitate hairs are important components fo raw cotton wastes. The density of capitate hairs on bract and leaf fragments in raw cotton was similar to that found on bracts and leaves from greenhouse and ...
K, Kosmidou-Dimitropoulou   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Nanomaterials for Textile Waste Treatment

2021
The blessings of modern civilization have created some adverse effects on the earth’s ecosystem at micro- and macro-scale. Textile industries are an integral part of modern civilization which has helped to shape our modern lifestyle. Unfortunately, side products from these industries, such as affluent (liquid form) or those in gaseous forms, are being ...
Bilal Akram   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Solutions Notes on Clean Textile Waste

2018
This work is supported by FEDER funds through the Competitiveness Factors Operational Programme - COMPETE and by national funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology within the scope of the project POCI-01-0145-FEDER007136”
Carina Jordão   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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