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A pathway to circular economy: Developing a conceptual framework for complex value assessment of resources recovered from waste

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Iacovidou, Eleni, Millward-Hopkins, Joel, Busch, Jonathan, Purnell, Philip, Velis, Costas A., Hahladakis, John N., Zwirner, Oliver, Brown, Andrew·2017·Journal of Cleaner Production
DOI 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.09.002
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The transition to a circular economy, where the value of resources is preserved in the technosphere, must be supported by policies and operational decision-making based on evidence. Existing methods used to provide this evidence (e.g. LCA, LCSA, CBA) are not robust enough to adequately address the creation and dissipation of systemic and multidimensional value that spans the social, environmental, economic and technical domains. This study proposes a novel, conceptual approach that seeks to assess how complex value is created, destroyed and distributed in resource recovery from waste systems. This approach expands beyond conventional methods of estimating value. It combines scientific and engineering methods with a socio-political narrative grounded in the systems of provision (sop) approach, and provides a comprehensive, analytical framework for making the transition to a resource-efficient future. This framework has the potential to connect bottom-up and top-down approaches in assessing resource recovery from waste systems, and address systemic challenges through transparency and flexibility, while accounting for the dynamic and non-linear nature of commodities flow and infrastructure provision in the overall system. This creates the pathway towards circular economy, and lays the foundations for future advances in computational and assessment methodologies in the field of RRfW.

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Authors
Iacovidou, E., Millward-Hopkins, J., Busch, J., Purnell, P., Velis, C. A., Hahladakis, J. N., Zwirner, O., & Brown, A.
Venue
Journal of Cleaner Production
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-12
Volume
168
Pages
1279-1288
ISSN
0959-6526 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.09.002
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W2752644700
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268
References
1
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23.21
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journal article
Language
en
Open access
hybrid
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Funders
  • UK Natural Environment Research Council
  • UK Economic and Social Research Council
  • Complex-Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery (NE/L014149/1)

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