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Re-thinking producer responsibility for a sustainable circular economy from extended producer responsibility to pre-market producer responsibility
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In this article, the authors explore the current tensions between EU waste law and the objectives of the circular economy, and call for incorporating a pre-market producer responsibility (PPR) within a legal framework for products in order to limit market access to durable, reparable and reusable products.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2021-03-01. It has received 30 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Extended producer responsibility & Waste hierarchy.read more
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Unlocking digital technologies for waste recycling in Industry 4.0 era: A transformation towards a digitalization-based circular economy in Indonesia
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated how to add economic value to recycled waste using digital technology and how economic incentives can be promoted to avoid generating waste, and they found that the digital transformation of waste industry encouraged community in Yogyakarta to sell waste online via Rapel app installed in their smartphones.
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The affecting factors of circular economy information and its impact on corporate economic sustainability-Evidence from China
Lopin Kuo,Bao-Guang Chang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the period of 2011-2017 and use content analysis to measure disclosure of circular economy information and find that firms that disclosed more circular economy knowledge were associated with higher sustainable growth rate and return on equity.
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Extended producer responsibility in the Australian construction industry
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the Australian regulatory environment and practice to identify barriers and enablers towards successful policy development and implementation of C&D waste-related Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is presented.
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Plastic pollution and packaging: Corporate commitments and actions from the food and beverage sector
TL;DR: In this article , a systematic review of 68 corporate sustainability reports was conducted to examine how major multinational companies in the food and beverage sector are addressing plastic pollution and packaging in their corporate sustainability report, what sustainable packaging strategies they present, and how the companies address producer responsibility.
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TL;DR: Aslanbeigui et al. as mentioned in this paper discussed the relationship between the national dividend and economic and total welfare, and the size of the dividend to the allocation of resources in the economy and the institutional structure governing labor market operations.
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Planetary boundaries: Exploring the safe operating space for humanity
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new approach to global sustainability in which they define planetary boundaries within which they expect that humanity can operate safely. But the proposed concept of "planetary boundaries" lays the groundwork for shifting our approach to governance and management, away from the essentially sectoral analyses of limits to growth aimed at minimizing negative externalities, toward the estimation of the safe space for human development.
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The Entropy Law and the Economic Process
TL;DR: In this paper, the Entropy Law and the economic process are discussed. But their focus is on the distribution of the entropy in the system, and not on the process itself, as we do.
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A review on circular economy: the expected transition to a balanced interplay of environmental and economic systems
TL;DR: In this paper, un estudio en donde se proporciona una revision extensa de la literatura de las two ultimas decadas, con el proposito de captar las principales caracteristicas y perspectivas of la CE (Economia circular): origenes, principios basicos, ventajas and desventajas, Modelado e implementacion of CE in los diferentes niveles (micro, meso, and macro) in todo el world.
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Conceptualizing the circular economy: An analysis of 114 definitions
TL;DR: In this paper, the circular economy is most frequently depicted as a combination of reduce, reuse and recycle activities, whereas it is oftentimes not highlighted that CE necessitates a systemic shift.