Pub Date : 2022-02-21DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2022.2042620
M. Parlato, Francesca Valenti, Elisa Lanza, S. Porto
ABSTRACT Today in Europe building-sector is responsible for the 50% of air pollution and for 70% of waste production. For this reason, researchers’ interest is focused on new eco-building materials that are sustainable, with low impact, renewable and recyclable. In this context, in the last few years, the use of cellulose-based fibres as potential reinforcements for bio-composite materials, instead of synthetic one, received worldwide growing attention. Among natural fibres, both cellulose and protein-based ones, in literature it was found that, due to its mechanical properties, artichoke fibre is suitable for this use. In this study, a Geographical Information System (GIS) – based model to locate and quantify the yearly amount of agricultural waste coming from Cynara cardunculus L. (CW) cultivation was put forward and was applied in a study area located in Southern Italy. As an additional protein-based fibre, sheep wool fibre was also taken into account due to the high presence of sheep. The estimated available amount of both considered fibres was reported in a GIS map in order to show their distribution at territorial level. The achieved results could represent basic information for both sustainable locating collection centre and analysing the environmental impact related to the logistics and supply phase.
今天，在欧洲，建筑部门负责50%的空气污染和70%的废物生产。因此，研究人员的兴趣集中在可持续、低影响、可再生和可回收的新型生态建筑材料上。在这种情况下，在过去几年中，使用纤维素基纤维作为生物复合材料的潜在增强材料，而不是合成纤维，受到了全世界越来越多的关注。在天然纤维中，无论是纤维素纤维还是蛋白质纤维，文献中发现，由于其机械性能，洋蓟纤维适合于这种用途。本文提出了基于地理信息系统(GIS)的Cynara cardunculus L. (CW)年农业废弃物量定位与量化模型，并在意大利南部研究区进行了应用。作为一种额外的蛋白质基纤维，由于绵羊的大量存在，羊毛纤维也被考虑在内。在地理信息系统地图上报告了这两种纤维的估计可用数量，以便显示它们在领土一级的分布情况。所取得的结果可以为可持续定位收集中心和分析与物流和供应阶段有关的环境影响提供基本信息。
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Pub Date : 2022-02-20DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2022.2039322
S. B. Larsen, Z. Hansen, Anders Haug, L. Hvam, P. Jacobsen
ABSTRACT In recent decades, an increasing number of manufacturers have implemented a reverse supply chain (RSC) that takes back and recovers products, components, or packaging, thereby supporting the ideas of the circular economy. The literature has shown that the profitability of RSCs varies in the sense that some manufacturers profit from this while others do not. The causes of this variance, however, remain unclear. To add to the knowledge on this topic, this paper investigates the factors that influence RSCs’ financial performance. This is done through three case studies of RSCs at equipment manufacturers, focusing on the end-product, component, and packaging level, respectively. The findings show that the RSC initiatives were rather profitable at all three product levels. On the other hand, RSC profitability had only a slight relationship to reverse logistics and RSC design. By demonstrating the importance of factors other than reverse logistics, the present study suggests that future research should apply a broader focus when investigating RSCs’ impact on overall financial performance. By identifying a set of factors influencing profitability at the end-product, component, and packaging levels, the present study advances the understanding of RSC profitability and provides a basis for more holistic RSC research.
{"title":"When reverse supply chain makes financial sense: a study of factors affecting profitability in reverse supply chains","authors":"S. B. Larsen, Z. Hansen, Anders Haug, L. Hvam, P. Jacobsen","doi":"10.1080/19397038.2022.2039322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19397038.2022.2039322","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent decades, an increasing number of manufacturers have implemented a reverse supply chain (RSC) that takes back and recovers products, components, or packaging, thereby supporting the ideas of the circular economy. The literature has shown that the profitability of RSCs varies in the sense that some manufacturers profit from this while others do not. The causes of this variance, however, remain unclear. To add to the knowledge on this topic, this paper investigates the factors that influence RSCs’ financial performance. This is done through three case studies of RSCs at equipment manufacturers, focusing on the end-product, component, and packaging level, respectively. The findings show that the RSC initiatives were rather profitable at all three product levels. On the other hand, RSC profitability had only a slight relationship to reverse logistics and RSC design. By demonstrating the importance of factors other than reverse logistics, the present study suggests that future research should apply a broader focus when investigating RSCs’ impact on overall financial performance. By identifying a set of factors influencing profitability at the end-product, component, and packaging levels, the present study advances the understanding of RSC profitability and provides a basis for more holistic RSC research.","PeriodicalId":14400,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Engineering","volume":"15 1","pages":"35 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41543249","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}
Pub Date : 2021-11-02DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2021.2000063
S. Bagalagel, W. ElMaraghy
ABSTRACT Remanufacturing of end-of-life products is one of the most preferred disposition alternatives to address environmental and economic concerns. In this paper, a hybrid decision-making framework is proposed to address the strategic planning issues of manufacturing-remanufacturing closed loop systems. The framework consists of qualitative and quantitative parts. The AHP-based qualitative part can be used to determine the configuration of the closed-loop network. The framework takes into consideration the product complexity and other characteristics as well as the supply chain network structure. The model considers the concerns of a manufacturer who offers a variety of complex modular products. The second part of the framework provides a quantitative optimisation model of technology implementation. A case study from the washing machine industry sector is used to illustrate the application of the proposed decision-making framework.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-02DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2021.2001605
Karina Braga Marsola, Andréa Leda Ramos de Oliveira, Monique Filassi, A. Elias, Fernando Andrade Rodrigues
ABSTRACT Pesticide residues has become a serious environmental concern due to the intensification of agricultural production, its universal use and the risk of contamination. It is an issue that is inserted in the dichotomy between the search for increased food production, waste generation and environmental preservation. There are two main objectives for this work. First, the descriptive analysis of the reverse logistics (RL) of empty pesticide containers (EPCs) as it is practiced under the Campo Limpo system (Brazil) so that the factors enabling its success are identified. Second, the proposal of strategies to improve the collection system. Technical visits and a system dynamics approach were combined, using the Behaviour Over Time graph and a causal loop model to describe the problem and propose strategies. Results indicate three key areas of the Campo Limpo system that can be improved: producer awareness, alternative means of returning containers and data transparency. Small and medium producers are more penalised in the return process due to the lack of information, difficulty in accessing disposal centres and the cost of transportation.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-02DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2021.1999531
P. R. S. Bezerra, F. Schramm, V. B. Schramm
ABSTRACT This paper presents a literature review on models for assessing corporate sustainability. The review encompasses 68 papers that were published in indexed peer-reviewed journals from 1990 to 2019, which were available on Web of ScienceTM in May 2020. The goal of this study is to evaluate how corporate sustainability is being evaluated in different sectors. We concluded that there is still no consensus among researchers from different areas regarding what corporate sustainability means and different indicators have been used to assess it. The biggest problem is that in various cases the sustainability tripod is not considered. Our study recommends a set of relevant indicators to be adopted for assessing corporate sustainability considering a four-dimensional perspective. The recommendation is based on the number of times these indicators were applied in the reviewed models, and it can be useful for different types of organisations and/or sectors. For future work, we suggest improving this review to include other databases and consequently other relevant publications, to analyse the operators used to aggregate the uni-dimensional information, and then to propose a general four-dimensional index for corporate sustainability assessment, based on a non-compensatory aggregation operator, which can be applied to evaluate different types of companies.
摘要本文对企业可持续性评估模型进行了文献综述。该综述涵盖了1990年至2019年在同行评议期刊上发表的68篇论文，这些论文于2020年5月在Web of ScienceTM上发表。本研究的目的是评估企业可持续发展是如何被评估在不同的部门。我们的结论是，不同领域的研究人员仍然没有就企业可持续发展的意义达成共识，并且使用了不同的指标来评估它。最大的问题是，在各种情况下，可持续性三脚架没有被考虑。我们的研究建议采用一套相关的指标，以评估企业的可持续发展考虑四维的角度。这些建议是根据这些指标在经审查的模型中应用的次数而提出的，它可能对不同类型的组织和/或部门有用。对于未来的工作，我们建议改进这一综述，包括其他数据库和其他相关出版物，分析用于汇总单维信息的算子，然后提出一个基于非补偿性汇总算子的企业可持续性评估的一般四维指标，该指标可用于评估不同类型的公司。
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Pub Date : 2021-11-02DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2021.1998934
Arun Kumar Sharma, B. Bhattacharya
ABSTRACT In the current scenario, colossal demand for state-of-the-art green composites has surged significantly to be exploited in commercial applications with a concurrent need to curtail plastics. The present study targets Aluminium Composite Materials (ACM) with a polyethylene core that can be substituted by rice husk (RH), a hard protective sheath of rice grains. Rice husk is a paragon of eco-friendliness and a productive latent agricultural byproduct. The current investigation focuses on designing and fabricating an ACM with rice husk core in different proportions of rice husk (5, 10, 15, and 20% by weight) with epoxy resin to form a laminate and sandwiched between aluminium sheets. Its various physical, mechanical, and environmental properties were examined to correlate with commercially existing ACMs, composites made from agricultural residues, plywood, and hardboards. It was observed that the proposed composite is light-weight with low water absorption, appreciable tensile and flexural strength, and vibration modes beyond the frequency range of operation. It is envisaged that the eco-friendly ACM with the rice husk core would be a promising eco-solution for daily-use applications like signage, hoarding, and frames.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-02DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2021.1970855
V. Yadav, Pardeep Gahlot, R. Rathi, Gunjan Yadav, Anil Kumar, Mahender Singh Kaswan
ABSTRACT Modern organisations are in quest of initiatives that will facilitate them to be sustainable as well as provide a competitive advantage to remain a continuous stakeholder in the global market. Green Lean Six Sigma (GLSS) is an inclusive approach that not only improves environmental sustainability but also leads to improvement in the financial stability of the organisations. To implement the GLSS strategy, it is essential to integrate Green, Lean, and Six Sigma initiatives under the umbrella of GLSS. In this study, GLSS integration has been proposed based on intangible features like enablers, toolsets, etc. Management dedication, participation, and team effort have been recognised as the most remarkable enablers to implement GLSS in the manufacturing sector. Moreover, this study also proposes a five facet GLSS framework for the manufacturing sector to enhance organisational sustainability. The current work will facilitate managers and practitioners to execute a sustainable GLSS programme in manufacturing firms for increased operational excellence as well as environmental sustainability.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-02DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2021.1998842
Zulfiquar N. Ansari, R. Kant
ABSTRACT Eco-innovations have become an essential component to attain sustainability in the supply chain. However, the process of transition from the traditional supply chain to an eco-innovative focused supply chain is faced with several challenges especially in the developing nations. Hence, this study is undertaken to evaluate the eco-innovation implementation barriers in the supply chain. A plithogenic-based neutrosophic analytic hierarchy process is used to determine the weight intensity of the barriers. Findings of the study indicate that lack of internal funds necessary to meet the extra cost and research and development cost are the major barrier in the adoption of eco-innovation initiatives. The other important barriers hindering the adoption of eco-innovation initiatives include the absence of complementary assets (such as infrastructure, standards), lack of collaboration agreements with other organisations, and high costs involved in the transition to new technologies. A manufacturing case industry is selected to apply the proposed framework. This study will help the industry experts/policy-makers to understand the important barriers hindering the adoption of eco-innovation initiatives.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-02DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2021.2004258
Ricardo J. Bonilla-Alicea, Katherine K. Fu
ABSTRACT Sustainability assessments provide methodologies to assess the environmental, economic, and social impacts of products along their life cycle. The purpose of this research is to develop a social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) framework derived from a set of challenges identified in the S-LCA field. The S-LCA framework presented in this study is developed by i) performing a systematic mapping of the S-LCA field; ii) gathering of LCA and SIA expert feedback; iii) evaluation through a novice user study; iv) and a case study application. The systematic mapping procedure is explained in detail (Bonilla-Alicea and Fu 2019), while the expert feedback and novice user study are the focus of this article. The case study application of the framework is the subject of a separate publication. The expert feedback is used to verify the relevance of the challenges through electronic survey data. Based on the expert feedback, the number of challenges is reduced from twelve to ten, as two of the challenges are considered part of the study design rather than challenges to performing social assessments. The novice user study implemented a simplified version of the S-LCA framework, and users were able to identify potential social impacts of their capstone design.
可持续性评估提供了评估产品在其生命周期中对环境、经济和社会影响的方法。本研究的目的是开发一个社会生命周期评估(S-LCA)框架，该框架来源于S-LCA领域中确定的一系列挑战。本研究提出的S-LCA框架是通过i)对S-LCA领域进行系统映射而发展起来的;ii)收集LCA和SIA专家的反馈;Iii)通过新手用户研究进行评估;Iv)和案例研究应用。详细解释了系统的制图过程(Bonilla-Alicea and Fu 2019)，而专家反馈和新手用户研究是本文的重点。该框架的案例研究应用是另一篇文章的主题。专家反馈用于通过电子调查数据验证挑战的相关性。根据专家的反馈，挑战的数量从12个减少到10个，因为其中两个挑战被认为是研究设计的一部分，而不是执行社会评估的挑战。新手用户研究实现了S-LCA框架的简化版本，用户能够识别其顶点设计的潜在社会影响。
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Pub Date : 2021-11-02DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2021.2003470
Salma Abid, F. Mhada
ABSTRACT Reverse logistics has grown in importance with the increase in environmental sustainability issues. However, reverse logistics is often associated with complex and difficult uncertainty issues, the vagueness of information, and the numerous decision variables and constraints. To address these issues, researchers deployed a class of effective methods called simulation-based optimisation. The aim of this study is to perform a systematic review of the available reverse logistics literature, discussing reverse logistic and simulation-based optimisation, highlighting the research gap and setting future directions. This work identifies: (1) various research design and methodologies used in reverse logistics literature; (2) the most explored areas of reverse logistics and discusses the sector where the exploration can be redirected; (3) the various simulation-based optimisation (SO) methods; and (4) the most dominant SO methods for solving reverse logistics problems. This study will be useful to researchers and practitioners in finding new research opportunities in the field of reverse logistics.
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