Multi criteria decision making approaches for green supplier evaluation and selection: a literature review

Within the context of Earth’s limited natural resources and assimilation capacity, the current environmental footprint of humankind is not sustainable. Assessing land, water, energy, material, and other footprints along supply chains is paramount in understanding the sustainability, efficiency, and equity of resource use from the perspective of producers, consumers, and government. We review current footprints and relate those to maximum sustainable levels, highlighting the need for future work on combining footprints, assessing trade-offs between them, improving computational techniques, estimating maximum sustainable footprint levels, and benchmarking efficiency of resource use. Ultimately, major transformative changes in the global economy are necessary to reduce humanity’s environmental footprint to sustainable levels

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/344/6188/1114.full.pdf

Humanity’s unsustainable environmental footprint

A Review of Footprint analysis tools for monitoring impacts on sustainability

Electronic waste management approaches: An overview

https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/61956/1/WRAP_Cinelli_1-s2.0-S1470160X14002647-main.pdf

Analysis of the potentials of multi criteria decision analysis methods to conduct sustainability assessment

Review of combined approaches and multi-criteria analysis for corporate environmental evaluation

https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/54382/3/Review_corporate_environmental.pdf

Review of corporate environmental indicators

Ranking municipal solid waste treatment alternatives based on ecological footprint and multi-criteria analysis

In this work, an environmental risk assessment of reusing organic waste of differing origins and raw materials as agricultural fertilizers was carried out. An inventory of the heavy metal content in different organic wastes (i.e., compost, sludge, or manure) from more than 80 studies at different locations worldwide is presented. The risk analysis was developed by considering the heavy metal (primarily Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn) concentrations in different organic residues to assess their potential environmental accumulation and biotransfer to the food chain and humans. A multi-compartment model was used to estimate the fate and distribution of metals in different environmental compartments, and a multi-pathway model was used to predict human exposure. The obtained hazard index for each waste was concerning in many cases, especially in the sludge samples that yielded an average value of 0.64. Among the metals, Zn was the main contributor to total risk in all organic wastes due to its high concentration in the residues and high biotransfer potential. Other more toxic metals, like Cd or Pb, represented a negligible contribution. These results suggest that the Zn content in organic waste should be reduced or more heavily regulated to guarantee the safe management and reuse of waste residues according to the current policies promoted by the European Union.

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Marta Herva

Papers

Review of combined approaches and multi-criteria analysis for corporate environmental evaluation

Review of corporate environmental indicators

Ranking municipal solid waste treatment alternatives based on ecological footprint and multi-criteria analysis

Inventory of heavy metal content in organic waste applied as fertilizer in agriculture: evaluating the risk of transfer into the food chain

An approach for the application of the Ecological Footprint as environmental indicator in the textile sector.