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    Karbon emisyon politikalarının tersine tedarik zincir ağı tasarımı üzerindeki etkileri

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    Reverse Supply Chain is described as an initiative that plays an important role in the global supply chain for those who seek environmentally responsible solutions for their end-of-life products. The relative economic and environmental benefits of reverse supply chain are influenced by costs and emissions during collection, transportation, recovery facilities, disassembly, recycling, remanufacturing, and disposal of unrecoverable components. The design of reverse supply chain network takes into account social, economic and environmental objectives. This paper addresses the design of reverse supply chain under the three common regulatory policies, strict carbon caps, carbon tax, and carbon cap-and-trade.Küresel tedarik zincirinde önemli bir rol oynayan tersine tedarik zinciri, ömrünü tamamlamış ürünler için çevreye karşı sorumlu çözümler arayanların bir girişimi olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Tersine tedarik zincirinin nispi ekonomik ve çevresel faydaları, toplama, nakliye, geri kazanım tesisleri, demontaj, geri dönüşüm, yeniden imalat ve geri dönüşü olmayan bileşenlerin imha edilmesi sırasında oluşan maliyetler ve emisyonlardan etkilenmektedir. Tersine tedarik zinciri ağ tasarımı sosyal, ekonomik ve çevresel hedefleri dikkate almaktadır. Bu makale, sıkı karbon kapsülleri, karbon vergisi, karbon emisyon üst sınırı ve ticareti olmak üzere üç ortak düzenleyici politikada ters tedarik zincirinin tasarımını ele almaktadır

    The Impact of Carbon Emissions Policies on Reverse Supply Chain Network Design

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    Reverse Supply Chain is described as an initiative that plays an important role in the global supply chain for those who seek environmentally responsible solutions for their end-of-life products. The relative economic and environmental benefits of reverse supply chain are influenced by costs and emissions during collection, transportation, recovery facilities, disassembly, recycling, remanufacturing, and disposal of unrecoverable components. The design of reverse supply chain network takes into account social, economic and environmental objectives. This paper addresses the design of reverse supply chain under the three common regulatory policies, strict carbon caps, carbon tax, and carbon cap-and-trade

    The Impact of Carbon Emissions Policies on Reverse Supply Chain Network Design

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    Reverse Supply Chain is described as an initiative that plays an important role in the global supply chain for those who seek environmentally responsible solutions for their end-of-life products. The relative economic and environmental benefits of reverse supply chain are influenced by costs and emissions during collection, transportation, recovery facilities, disassembly, recycling, remanufacturing, and disposal of unrecoverable components. The design of reverse supply chain network takes into account social, economic and environmental objectives. This paper addresses the design of reverse supply chain under the three common regulatory policies, strict carbon caps, carbon tax, and carbon cap-and-trade

    Assessing long-term medical remanufacturing emissions with Life Cycle Analysis

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    The unsustainable take-make-dispose linear economy prevalent in healthcare contributes 4.4% to global Greenhouse Gas emissions. A popular but not yet widely-embraced solution is to remanufacture common single-use medical devices like electrophysiology catheters, significantly extending their lifetimes by enabling a circular life cycle. To support the adoption of catheter remanufacturing, we carried out a holistic comparative evaluation of virgin manufactured and remanufactured carbon emissions with Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). We followed ISO modelling standards and NHS reporting guidelines to ensure industry relevance. We conclude that remanufacturing may lead to a reduction of up to 61% per turn (burden-free) and 58% per life (burdened). Our extensive sensitivity analysis and industry-informed buy-back scheme revealed up to 49% long-term emission reductions per remanufactured catheter life. Our comprehensive results encourage a collaborative approach to remanufacturing to optimise emission savings across a catheter's life cycle.Comment: 23 pages, 9 figures, 7 table

    Material efficiency strategies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with buildings, vehicles, and electronics - A review

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    As one quarter of global energy use serves the production of materials, the more efficient use of these materials presents a significant opportunity for the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With the renewed interest of policy makers in the circular economy, material efficiency (ME) strategies such as light-weighting and downsizing of and lifetime extension for products, reuse and recycling of materials, and appropriate material choice are being promoted. Yet, the emissions savings from ME remain poorly understood, owing in part to the multitude of material uses and diversity of circumstances and in part to a lack of analytical effort. We have reviewed emissions reductions from ME strategies applied to buildings, cars, and electronics. We find that there can be a systematic trade-off between material use in the production of buildings, vehicles, and appliances and energy use in their operation, requiring a careful life cycle assessment of ME strategies. We find that the largest potential emission reductions quantified in the literature result from more intensive use of and lifetime extension for buildings and the light-weighting and reduced size of vehicles. Replacing metals and concrete with timber in construction can result in significant GHG benefits, but trade-offs and limitations to the potential supply of timber need to be recognized. Repair and remanufacturing of products can also result in emission reductions, which have been quantified only on a case-by-case basis and are difficult to generalize. The recovery of steel, aluminum, and copper from building demolition waste and the end-of-life vehicles and appliances already results in the recycling of base metals, which achieves significant emission reductions. Higher collection rates, sorting efficiencies, and the alloy-specific sorting of metals to preserve the function of alloying elements while avoiding the contamination of base metals are important steps to further reduce emissions

    Monitor Sustainable Municipalities Report 2019 Key topic Circular Economy. Bertelsmann Stiftung Study 4 November 2019

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    At first sight, the concept for a recycling economy appears to be just the latest trend in the field of urban development, but in fact conversion to circular value creation also contains numerous oppor-tunities for the creation of long-term sustainable economic, social and environmental benefits for local communities. We have therefore chosen to look at this topic in this, our fourth, Monitor Report. Recycling Economy, Circular Value Creation and Cradle To Cradle are three concepts which – alt-hough each has a different main focus – basically all describe the same paradigm shift: away from a classic linear economy (“Take, Make, Use, Dispose”) towards a model based on restoration and regeneration. The recycling economy principle is actually anchored in the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Devel-opment Goals, or SDGs. Goal 12 calls for sustainable consumption and sustainable production patterns. The recycling economy is also associated with a number of other sustainability goals, as it makes a significant contribution to their achievement. We are convinced that it is worth considering the applicability of the concept to local communities in Germany. What does transferring the recycling economy principle to local communities entail? How can towns be converted into “Recycling Cities”? Where are the obstacles and what potential is there? This Monitor Report is a first – it is the first bilingual version. With the kind permission of the Collab-orating Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) in Wuppertal, we have issued their “Circular Economy Guidebook for Cities” in the original English with a German translation. We hope that, by looking at the bigger picture, we will also generate the impulse to consider how the topic can be adopted in (European) towns and cities, and what the resulting benefits could be. We are fully aware that a one-to-one transfer will not work. “One size fits all” does not apply to local communities. Although something that makes sense in Amsterdam, Copenhagen or Oslo may not necessarily work in towns, districts and local communities in Germany, it is definitely worth looking at how things are done in other countries. I would sincerely like to thank everyone who contributed to the creation of this Report, and especially the CSCP for its trust and invaluable cooperation. We hope you enjoy reading the Report, and look forward as always to your feedback and suggestions

    CANON: A Circular Economy Business Model Case

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    This report presents the case study of Canon’s EMEA business for Document Solutions (DS), with a focus on the business model for remanufacturing and refurbishment. It was chosen as it provided an example of a mature remanufacturing model, as well as potential for further circularity and business benefit through expansion of refurbishment activities. Canon EMEA has also been growing services such as Managed Print Service (MPS) – a service-based model for providing printer copiers – which, while not a focus of the case study, provides opportunities for both remanufacturing and refurbishment. Canon operates in a market which is currently in decline, with vendors competing intensely for market share. This is creating a stark contrast between a business model driven by new product sales, and one that emphasises the cultivation and reutilisation of existing deployed assets. In this context, it is important to emphasise that this case study focuses on the circular business models and potential for Canon EMEA, whose business is principally a combination of sales/marketing and service delivery. This is in contrast to Canon Inc. (Japan) who manufactures and supplies equipment for Canon EMEA to sell and integrate into its service offerings. This case study explores the opportunities, as well as enablers and barriers, to Canon expanding the role of remanufacturing and refurbishment within its circular business models. We believe this will have important positive implications for Canon given the broader strategic challenges it face

    Analysis of a Garment-oriented Textile Recycling System via Simulation Approach

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    The textile industry is one of the polluting industries on the planet. Public awareness has increased manufacturers responsibility and forced them to shift from linear to the circular production line to reduce the amount of environmental impact such as; energy and freshwater consumption, toxic and fertilizer usage and cutting down the use of raw material. Also, some new business strategies like fast fashion which is a recent trend in the fashion industry by offering fast changing trend and inexpensive designs accelerate the process of purchasing new clothes that end up in landfills. Recycling, remanufacturing and reusing are some practices that can be done to minimize the environmental impact and to keep used clothes out of the landfills. One of these preventive actions is textiles recycling which involves so many uncertainties, such as quality, quantity, and type of the used materials. To address this problem, a discrete event simulation model is proposed to study the changes in the recycling process. The main focus of the model is on the interaction between different components in a textile recycling system to increase the number of recycled materials to return them into the supplier. Moreover, the performance of the servers is studied in order to run different scenarios. These scenarios are proposed and have been chosen based on the Welch method

    3PL Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility in A Closed-loop Supply Chain : A Conceptual Approach

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    The responsibility of todays's reputable company are not only financial, but also corporate social responsibility(CSR). With regards to the environmental aspect, the public expects green logistics solutions. This paper focuses on how a third party logistics provider(3PL) might provide green logisticsservices through actions that foster sustainability. The methodology used is an in-depth interviewing approach, which described green logistics through the key drivers using depth interviews. An existing conceptual model is used to support our concepts and ideas. Finally, we discuss out the key factors from respondent regarding how to maintain sustainability through action, from 3PL's perspective. We also discuss the benefits and challenges to green logistics in future

    Product-Service development for circular economy and sustainability course

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    ABSTRACT: This book is an output of the ERASMUS+ KATCH_e project. KATCH_e stands for “Knowledge Alliance on Product-Service Development towards Circular Economy and Sustainability in Higher Education”. This was a 3-year project (2017-2019), aiming to address the challenge of reinforcing skills and competences in Higher Education and within the business community, in the field of product-service development for the circular economy and sustainability, with a particular focus on the construction and furniture sectors.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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