Circular Economy Evaluation: Towards a Transparent and Traceable Approach under a Life Cycle Perspective
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 2542
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resources efficiency (both raw material and energy); circularity enhancement; LCA/LCC/exergy; ecodesign; traceability; product environmental footprint; sustainable industrial processes; multicriteria optimization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Apart from the development of efficient and sustainable technologies to be integrated into existing value chains, one of the main challenges to meet circular economy goals consists of defining a proper metric for circular economy strategies. In this light, ensuring the traceability of the information throughout the whole value chain is a key point to determine the real impact of circular economy strategies as well as avoiding double-counting or green-washing problems. In addition, having reliable information at all stages of the value chain is a key aspect to detect and prevent actions that could hinder the durability, recyclability, reusability, reparability, and dismantlability of products making it difficult to close the loop towards a circular economy approach considering not only technical and/or regulation compliance description but also environmental and social impacts through the whole life cycle of each product in a transparent and objective way. Consequently, the traceability and transparency of the evaluation can be considered as a mandatory step to make recycled products more interesting than virgin ones, fostering circular economy.
Considering this context, we would like to encourage you to submit original scientific papers aimed at increasing the level of knowledge on circular economy measurement, data quality analysis, and the integration of circular economy evaluation under a life cycle approach as well as at defining the requirements for the proper evaluation of circular strategies. The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide more insight into the interpretation and management of circular economy.
Dr. Tatiana García Armingol
Dr. Fernando Cirez Oto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- circular economy
- traceability
- LCA
- environmental footprint
- recycling
