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{"title":"Assessing the impacts of computer reuse for digital inclusion from product information","authors":"Mireia Roura,&nbsp;Leandro Navarro,&nbsp;Roc Meseguer,&nbsp;Sergio Giménez","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100123","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100123","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Computer reuse is promoted as a strategy to reduce environmental impact, create local employment, and provide digital access. However, the development of sustainability indicators to inform policy has remained limited. This is due to the lack of empirical data on device lifespans and regional context, which forces Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) practitioners to rely on generic assumptions that limit the accuracy of impact estimations. This study addressed these gaps by developing an LCA-based calculation criterion designed to integrate multiple parameters using device-level data. The criterion is specifically tailored to provisioning scenarios targeting digitally excluded communities and was partially applied using a Dataset and lifespans of 710 refurbished devices from the eReuse initiative in Spain. Three provisioning scenarios (single user, two users with reuse, two users with new devices) were evaluated for Spain and extrapolated to South Africa and Sweden with contrasting electricity mixes to quantify the influence of energy in use. Reuse proved more advantageous than supplying new devices in terms of GWP per hour of digital access, and a one-at-a-time sensitivity analysis showed that the magnitude of this benefit is highly sensitive to device lifespans and electricity emission factors. Future integration of digital product information into LCA is expected to enhance the precision of sustainability indicators used to inform policy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145694809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The quest for more circular battery value chains: Implementing the EU digital battery passport and remaining challenges","authors":"Riccardo Losa ,&nbsp;Stina Torjesen","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100118","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital technologies have been increasingly adopted to facilitate the adoption of circular economy. A prominent example is the Digital Product Passport (DPP), designed to enhance product sustainability by collecting and disclosing comprehensive lifecycle information. International efforts toward the DPP include systems in the US, EU and China which leverage digital technologies to enhance products traceability, circularity, and sustainability across various industries. A DPP for batteries (DBP - Digital Battery Passport) is currently being implemented under the EU Battery Regulation and is entering into force in the European market in February 2027. Past studies have examined DPPs’ data requirements, principles, and challenges, but few have assessed their effectiveness in fostering circularity, and none have evaluated their role in the development of a circular battery sector in Europe. This study explored whether DBP’s potential circularity benefits are valid or compromised by implementation challenges and practical limitations. 35 industry stakeholders were interviewed, and literature and policy documents reviewed. The findings indicated that the DBP supports the emergence of circular battery value chains and facilitates both re-use and recycling. However, while data for recycling is easier to provide, the information needed for re-use is seen by stakeholders as posing availability and intellectual property challenges. This ties in with additional biases in the EU Battery Regulation that potentially favor recycling (i.e., targets for recycled content and recovered materials). Facilitating recycling over re-use is sub-optimal from an environmental perspective, and the article suggested a set of solutions to the DBP’s challenges, including for the recycling bias.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145623415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing corporate accountability: The role of SDGs disclosure and stakeholder pressure in improving labour and human rights performance in the global automotive industry","authors":"Woon Leong Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100120","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100120","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global automotive industry faces growing scrutiny over labour and human rights practices amid rising sustainability demands. This study investigates how Sustainable Development Goals-related disclosures influence labour and human rights performance and the moderating role of stakeholder pressure. Using data from international automotive firms (2016–2022) and System Generalized Method of Moments analysis, the findings suggest that comprehensive disclosures are associated with improved performance, but overly focused disclosures may be counterproductive. Stakeholder pressure tends to amplify positive effects from disclosure depth and breadth while exacerbating negative effects from concentration. The study highlights the need for balanced disclosures to boost corporate accountability and ethical practices, offering insights for managers and policymakers to align strategies with sustainability goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145693431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing air quality improvements during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: A case for sustainable urban management","authors":"Jie Gao ,&nbsp;Markus Lang ,&nbsp;Yiyi Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100116","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Air pollution remains one of the most pressing environmental challenges facing rapidly urbanizing regions worldwide, threatening public health and sustainable development. Mega-sporting events like the Olympic Games often lead to increased environmental regulation, creating a rare opportunity to implement large-scale air quality management measures. However, whether these short-term interventions result in long-term improvements in urban air quality remains an open question. This study examines whether the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games served as a catalyst for long-term improvements in air quality. Using an event study method, monthly Air Quality Index data were analyzed to estimate pollution levels that would have occurred without the Games, along with a review of policy documents detailing event-specific environmental measures. The findings indicate that air quality significantly improved from March to December 2021, with positive effects lasting up to eight months after the Olympics. These improvements resulted from a combination of targeted emission controls, transition to cleaner energy sources, and strict enforcement measures. The findings indicate that well-designed and consistently enforced environmental policies implemented during mega-events can produce lasting benefits for urban air quality. This study offers valuable insights for policymakers and event organizers aiming to use global sporting events to promote sustainable urban management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145623414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating the SDGs into SMEs: A systematic review of approaches, barriers, and assessment methods","authors":"Hoang Thien Le ,&nbsp;Giulio Pappa ,&nbsp;Nicola Lattanzi","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100119","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100119","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are crucial to national economies but face unique challenges in aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Prior research remains fragmented and largely descriptive, offering limited integration across implementation approaches, barriers, and assessment methods. To bridge the gap, this review offers an integrated synthesis of how SMEs engage with the SDGs, the obstacles they encounter, and how sustainability performance is evaluated. A systematic literature review was carried out under PRISMA guidelines, combining bibliometric mapping and qualitative content analysis of 95 peer-reviewed articles published between 2015 and 2024. Eight major approaches were identified—dominated by <em>innovation-technology adoption</em>, <em>cross-sector collaboration</em>, and <em>stakeholder engagement</em>—while four main barrier categories also synthesized, led by <em>internal and institutional constraints</em>. Furthermore, sustainability performance is most often assessed through the Triple Bottom Line and Key Performance Indicator frameworks, with growing applications of Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental-Social-Governance, and Life Cycle Assessment methods. Building on these findings, this study proposed the Approach–Barrier–Assessment–Fit framework, which aligns strategies, barriers, and assessment choices under contextual fit. The framework contributes to theoretical understanding of SME sustainability transitions and provides practical insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers supporting SDG implementation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145693430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing Vietnamese students' intentions to participate in municipal solid waste classification and instruct others on sorting practices","authors":"Thai-Ngoc Pham","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100121","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100121","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal in developing countries remains a critical challenge, constrained by inadequate waste management systems and insufficient financial investment, and reliant to a large extent on active public participation for improvement. Despite growing global attention to sustainable waste management, limited research has examined the psychological and contextual factors shaping individuals' MSW sorting behaviors in developing contexts. This study investigates the antecedents of both classification intention and instruction intention toward MSW sorting among Vietnamese students, who serve as change agents and pioneers within the educational sectors, where institutions are actively developing conditions to support MSW classification. Drawing on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the research identifies key drivers including environmental concerns, self-efficacy, subjective norms, government publicity, facilitating conditions, attitude, and perceived environmental responsibility. Data were collected via a structured questionnaire survey with 433 valid responses and analyzed by AMOS version 22. The findings reveal that classification intention is driven by both students’ attitude toward MSW classification (β = 0.252) and perceived environmental responsibility (β = 0.14), while instruction intention is primarily influenced by perceived environmental responsibility (β = 0.368). Additionally, attitude is most strongly shaped by self-efficacy, whereas perceived environmental responsibility is significantly driven by environmental concerns. These insights underscore the instrumental role of the student segment in advancing voluntary MSW policies in Vietnam. The study offers valuable theoretical contributions by clarifying the motivational pathways for classification and instruction intentions and provides practical implications for policymakers and educational administrators aiming to enhance MSW management practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145693432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forest conservation in the climate Era: Examining the environmental Kuznets curve across development pathways","authors":"Yavuz Selim Balcıoğlu ,&nbsp;Abdullah Kürşat Merter ,&nbsp;Turhan Karakaya","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100117","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100117","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Global forest area declined by approximately 178 million hectares between 1990 and 2020 despite international conservation commitments. Meanwhile, forests continue to sequester approximately 2.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually while providing essential ecosystem services critical for climate regulation and biodiversity conservation. Traditional Environmental Kuznets Curve models employing income-based development proxies have proven inadequate for capturing the complex interplay between development pathways, renewable energy transitions, and forest conservation outcomes, particularly as nations pursue economic growth while implementing Paris Agreement commitments. This investigation addresses critical theoretical and empirical gaps by reconceptualizing the Environmental Kuznets Curve specifically for forest conservation, demonstrating that contemporary forest dynamics exhibit a modified tripartite pattern contingent upon policy integration and renewable energy transitions rather than following deterministic income-based trajectories predicted by traditional formulations. The research employs a comprehensive panel dataset covering 19 major economies representing diverse development trajectories across high-income developed countries, upper-middle income economies, and lower-middle income countries over the period 2000–2024. The methodological approach consists of three stages including cross-sectional analysis establishing baseline Environmental Kuznets Curve relationships, fixed-effects panel regression examining temporal dynamics while controlling for country-specific heterogeneity, and trajectory classification using cluster analysis to identify distinct development-conservation pathways, with comprehensive robustness checks employing alternative development indicators and sensitivity analysis. The empirical analysis reveals that early development countries with less than 5 tons carbon dioxide per capita exhibit paradoxical forest degradation averaging negative 2.37 percent, middle development countries with 5–12 tons per capita demonstrate optimal conservation performance with positive 1.24 percent forest expansion, and advanced economies with greater than 12 tons per capita achieve modest gains of 0.67 percent. The investigation documents pronounced synergistic relationships between renewable energy deployment and forest conservation with a correlation coefficient of 0.425, whereby forest-gaining nations exhibit renewable energy growth rates averaging 12.4 percent compared to 0.6 percent among forest-losing countries, while China's 5.0 percent forest expansion and India's 2.5 percent gains empirically demonstrate that strategic policy interventions and integrated climate-energy-forest governance frameworks enable countries to transcend deterministic development-environment tradeoffs. These findings necessitate fundamental recalibration of international climate financing toward comprehensive policy frameworks prioritizing ins","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145579139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Design for Disassembly: An analytical method for assessing target components for remanufacturing","authors":"Sofie Bach Hybel,&nbsp;Emilie Folkmann,&nbsp;Lykke Margot Ricard","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100113","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100113","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The transition to a circular economy requires products to be designed for recovery, reuse, and remanufacturing. Fastening systems and product architecture play a decisive role in enabling these strategies, yet practical methods for assessing design-for-disassembly (DfD) remain limited, partically at the component level. This paper presents an analytical method that adapts the disassembly mapping approach to evaluate small-scale mechatronic products, focusing on identifying target components for remanufacturing. The method integrates manual disassembly, CAD-based product architecture analysis, and generic life cycle assessment (LCA) data to assess both economic and environmental value. Three LEGO® mechatronic products were analysed as representative cases: the Yellow Hub, the Large Angled Blue Motor, and the Super Mario Figure. Across these cases, key design barriers were identified, including glued battery casings, hidden snap-fits, and soldered electronic clusters. The findings show that economically valuable components often coincide with those having the highest embodied energy and CO₂-eq, highlighting the alignment between environmental and economic motivations. The study proposes three design guidelines: (a) minimise disassembly steps to target components, (b) cluster and conserve electrical functionality (<em>Click-a-tronics</em>), and (c) standardise fastener systems. Together, these guidelines connect product architecture to circular design strategies and provide actionable insights for manufacturers aiming to integrate remanufacturing into product development and comply with emerging Ecodesign standards.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145527984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prioritizing, integrating, and communicating sustainability to prevent social washing","authors":"Behzad Maleki Vishkaei ,&nbsp;Esli Spahiu ,&nbsp;Pietro De Giovanni","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100114","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100114","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nowadays, companies are under increasing pressure to adopt social sustainability programs to effectively respond to both stakeholder expectations and new policies. Social sustainability plays a critical role in shaping ethical operations, inclusive workplaces, and long-term corporate legitimacy. However, compared to the environmental aspect, more research is needed to discover new and effective paths for properly embedding social sustainability into business practices. Accordingly, this paper analyses how companies prioritize and assess social sustainability practices, how they integrate such practices into their corporate strategy, and how effectively they communicate the social commitments to the stakeholders. These objectives are pursued by adopting both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and analyzing 208 Italian companies. The findings reveal that companies prioritize five sustainable development goals, specifically: decent work, health and well-being, gender equality, quality education, and reduced inequality. These dimensions are frequently verified through external certifications and awards. At the same time, the integration of social sustainability into the corporate strategy requires several soft skills in addition to adaptability, flexibility, and responsiveness. Moreover, many companies communicate their social sustainability through reports, official websites, and social media, facilitating stakeholder awareness; hence, stakeholders can be effectively engaged through structured surveys, interviews, and meetings. Finally, to ensure credibility and avoid social washing, companies employ internal audits, adopt international standards, and invest in transparency tools to assess their social impact.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145527985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risk management in sustainable building projects: A systematic literature review and scientometric analysis","authors":"Fuwei Wang ,&nbsp;Maxwell Fordjour Antwi-Afari ,&nbsp;Shahnawaz Anwer ,&nbsp;Waleed Umer ,&nbsp;Imran Mehmood","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given the extensive research on risk management in sustainable projects, there is a need to comprehensively synthesize the extant literature to enhance current research development and practical application. Therefore, the current study conducts a systematic literature review and scientometric analysis of risk management in sustainable building projects to identify mainstream research topics, research gaps, and future research directions. By following the PRISMA framework, 61 journal articles were finally retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science databases. In addition, scientometric analyses such as keywords and countries/regions co-occurrence analysis were conducted. The results identified four mainstream topics, including (1) risk management in green building, (2) supply chain risk management for sustainable projects, (3) application of building information modeling (BIM) in risk management of sustainable construction projects, and (4) risk assessment of sustainable construction projects. Moreover, this study developed a framework identifying four key research gaps and future research directions. Ultimately, the current study contributes to broadening the academic discourse on risk management in sustainable building projects as well as providing risk management strategies and policies towards a sustainable built environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145579233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}