An increasingly abundant literature deals with the circular economy in a variety of aspects. They will have to be designed in such a way that they can be repaired easily. How can donors play a role in helping usher in a circular economy? More than 200 experts from 100 organizations helped develop theCircular Economy Action Agenda, a set of publications that analyze the potential impact and call for action across five key sectors: plastics, textiles, electronics, food and capital equipment (machinery and large tools such as medical scanners, agricultural equipment and manufacturing infrastructure). Comput. Their similarities lie rather with industrial jobs even if the context is indeed the greening of the economy. Soc. In: Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, pp. Prod. 2023 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. (2017) shifting the linear economic model, that was prevailing from the onset of the Industrial Revolution, is a challenging task requiring a transformation of the existing production and consumption patterns.Moving from a linear to a more circular economy calls for new circular business models, new styles of consumer behaviour and innovative solutions for turning waste into resources (Baov et al., 2014). for the circular economy', which aims to support the transition to a circular economy in the EU (Wilts, 2016). Grid, NREL Technical Report (2021) . On the basis of that material, overall scenarios were built highlighting in particular the combinations of drivers most likely to have a major effect on working conditions and their consequences on safety and health. The potential risks are high when it comes to revising production processes or using other raw materials (particularly from recycling), rolling out new technology, developing repair and reuse activities, transforming waste for it to be reused, etc. @article{osti_1810724, title = {PV Evolution in the Light of Circular Economy: Preprint}, author = {Ovaitt, Silvana and Mirletz, Heather M. and Hegedus, Acadia and Gaulding, Ashley and Barnes, Teresa}, abstractNote = {An ideal circular economy has no waste, end-of-life resources become new goods, and all production loops are closed. The closest job family seems to be green jobs. 13th Global conference on sustainable manufacturing decoupling growth from resource use. http://en.inrs.fr/inrs/strategic-plan/foresight-exercise.html. We have seen that the new model will involve a profound change in the organisation of production, particularly with regard to the design and use of (secondary) raw materials. After many years marked by more or less serious breaks in the supply chains, Europe experiences a stable situation in 2040. Sense & Sustainability. We would need1.5 Earthsto sustainably support our current resource use. For workers in design, marketing or sales, this change can be unsettling. 259270Cite as, Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNISA,volume 11872). 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The role of public authorities is limited to social support for citizens during these changes. NBER, Working Paper 21116. http://nber.org/papers/w21116, Zhang L, Xu Z (2016) A review of current progress of recycling technologies for metals from waste electrical and electronic equipment. This is why it will be important to act on parameters such as capacity and filling rate of vehicles, especially for return journeys, in order to reduce the negative externalities. PV in the Circular Economy, a Dynamic Framework Analyzing Technology Evolution and Reliability Impacts, iScience (2022) . J. A circular economy is a proposed economic system, as well as a specific model of production and consumption, that aims to reduce or eliminate waste output through the continual use of finite resources. 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The authors are grateful to Helen Holmes, Wouter Spekkink, Maria Sharmina, Malte Roedl, and Carly Fletcher for serving as the experts to evaluate the topic model results and providing their valuable feedback. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/jclepro.2018.06.131, Jawahir IS, Bradley R (2016) Technological elements of circular economy and the principles of 6R-based closed-loop material flow in sustainable manufacturing. Evidently, it will be necessary to make sure that these new processes take full account of occupational risk prevention, but it is clear that for the moment, advances in robotics or ICTs are probably not enough to guarantee this in the future. The latter are largely involved in the transition: in particular, their know-how is regularly called upon. Specifying k as 20, we find topics in the literature focussing on resources, business models, process modelling, conceptual research and policies. 13, p. S8. 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This functional economy is mirrored in collaborative consumption which aims to promote pooling, sharing or leasing of products for a fixed period rather than individual possession of those products. & Batista-Navarro, R.T. (2019) Understanding the Evolution of Circular Economy through Language Change, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, 250-253. 143, 757768 (2017), Ghisellini, P., Cialani, C., Ulgiati, S.: A review on circular economy: the expected transition to a balanced interplay of environmental and economic systems. Reintegration into the world of labour through SSE is not only a matter of techniques, but also of OSH. This paper shows, using the case of Marrakech (Morocco), how a novel holistic approach called WMS development stage concept (WMS-DSC) is applied to assess WMSs and determine measures promoting a CE. 2, pp. Above all, foresight is a tool to improve and facilitate collaborative thinking and decision-making. The fact that the entire population is involved in this transition from the linear to the circular model makes things easier, since citizens shift their consumption patterns towards a more sustainable model and thus participate, at their own level, in the setting up of waste collection and treatment operations or the installation of repair workshops. ICTs used to ensure traceability of secondary raw materials or the components of a product could also embed the essential data for the prevention of the corresponding occupational risks. Two unknowns still exist to evaluate the plausibility of this hypothesis: The respective costs of human labour and robotisation: the decline in the cost of unskilled labour in recent years does not favour the automation of certain tasks, When tasks require skill, flexibility or situational intelligence, human beings are often still much better than machines. Springer, London (2007). Cobotics (human-robot collaboration) make it possible to avoid deleterious efforts thanks to the use, for example, of assisted cutting pliers, originally designed to extricate passengers from vehicles after traffic accidents. Similarly, the creation of these hubs, geographically well distributed, should allow all drivers to avoid sleeping away from home, improving their quality of life. taking into account the overall environment in which they are supposed to happen. 262272. 13th global conference on sustainable manufacturing decoupling growth from resource use. The evolution of the Circular Economy - mapping research and practice Funded through a competitively won PhD Scholarship from AMBS, this mixed-methods project combines quantitative machine learning methods with qualitative social science methods to map the evolution of the concept of circular economy. that have already been used once or several times. In: Zalta, E.N. These changes are likely to be very gradual, with the transition from a linear to a circular economy occurring at different rates depending on the sector of activity. In such a case, at all levels, many risks may emerge which may be very difficult to deal with. It is essential at all times to know the composition of a secondary raw material or the mechanical state of a component. Similarly, maintenance and cleaning issues could be of particular importance with less stable industrial processes due to the greater variability in the composition of secondary raw materials used: this is also outsourced work. However, even if the quality of waste collection improves, the preliminary sorting operations will probably remain indispensable and these are among the activities that expose workers the most. 1), 52285235 (2004), Grun, B., Hornik, K.: Topicmodels: an R package for fitting topic models. 2023 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 42, 215227 (2013), Sun, L., Yin, Y.: Discovering themes and trends in transportation research using topic modeling. IDEAL 2019. 339348. Consequently, the four scenarios were discussed by a dozen experts from various disciplines in order to determine which are the most relevant subjects (stakes) to be handled by the institute in the following years. These topics have been the topic of attention of academics and practitioners for decades, but in the last five years, the circular economy label has become a key focus. Clean. This concept is currently surging among practitioners as the dominant label of addressing issues of resource efficiency and recycling. Fig. Failures in the operation of industrial systems can in fact lead to industrial accidents or occupational exposure. For a long time now, it has been accepted (at least theoretically) that all the operations likely to occur during a products life cycle must also be considered from an occupational risk prevention point of view when the product is designed. Four contrasting scenarios were written depicting the main options for the potential development of the circular economy by 2040 and the likely evolution in corresponding work conditions over the upcoming decades. Soc. ISSN 1548-7660, Hall, D., Jurafsky, D., Manning, C.D. Document downloadable at: https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/publications/intelligent-assets. Personal use of this material is permitted. The project maps this evolution and seeks to explain it. Waste Manag 39:226235, Article The very principle of the circular economy requires the reuse of raw materials (henceforth designated as secondary raw materials in this article) and components (mechanical, electrical, electronic parts, etc.) Given the diversity of situations and limited resources, this prevention of occupational risks remains confined to generalities. Philos. In the fourth scenario, the transition to a circular economy is promoted by two main players: a few companies that have an economic interest in it, for example to counter the scarcity of a resource, and individuals who join it out of conviction. The logic, the context and the working methods are different and the immediate interests can be antagonistic. Bus. In the first scenario, given the high technological level of the leading players, the challenge is to convince them of the value of integrating OHS issues at all levels of the product life cycle: design, initial manufacture, repair, end-of-life deconstruction, logistics and transport, etc. This rampant consumption has devastating effects for humans, wildlife and the planet. have been identified and used for assessing the goals expected in economic growth, environmental protection and societal benefits [11, 12]. Secondary raw materials will not always be as pure as first-use materials. University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2010), Jiao, W., Boons, F.: Policy durability of Circular Economy in China: a process analysis of policy translation. statement and Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative, Over 10 million scientific documents at your fingertips, Not logged in Reuse must not lead to a risk of breakage due to wear during assembly. It reduces the impact on the environment without affecting, and sometimes even improving the well-being of individuals. Traceability will involve the creation of a solid reference system that ensures the relevance of the data. 3.1.1 Pessimistic scenario: Marginal evolution of circular economy and industrial di gitalization Within scenario 1, the current status quo follows its natural inertia whereby there is only a m . https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2019/entries/concepts/. The circular economy is based on three principles, driven by design: Eliminate waste and pollution Circulate products and materials (at their highest value) Regenerate nature Empir. In addition, it proposes an investigation of empirical evidence of economic-financial gains resulting from the adoption of circular production . Cookies policy. This physical internet could be favourable to the improvement of working conditions. Document downloadable at: https://www.senseandsustainability.net/2019/03/07/closing-the-loop-on-the-circular-economy/. It does not suggest that no adverse occupational effects are possible. 8 Altmetric Metrics Abstract In over 10 years, China remarkably progressed in the research and practice of circular economy. J. Ind. & Batista-Navarro, R. (2019) Studying the Evolution of the Circular Economy Concept Using Topic Modelling, in Yin, H., Camacho, D., Tino, P., Talln-Ballesteros, A., Menezes, R. & Allmendinger, R. (eds) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning IDEAL 2019, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11872. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. Consequently, it is interesting to examine the content of these new activities in order to grasp the extent of the transformations at work. It would be antithetical for the circular economy to lead to the continued export of a large proportion of toxic waste to developing countries, as is currently the practice. Program. In: BMC Bioinformatics, vol. PubMedGoogle Scholar. A solar project currently generating over 1.3MW of energy and up to 10MW output planned for the future when the landfill is fully built. Eng. However, in a context of worldwide economic and social tensions generating supply instability, sobriety is often more an obligation than a deliberate choice. 40(13), 130 (2011). Listed: Bressanelli, Gianmarco Visintin, Filippo Saccani, Nicola Registered: Abstract Circular Economy promises to achieve sustainability by decoupling economic growth from resource extraction and environmental losses. 21(5), 18431919 (2016), Feinerer, I.: Introduction to the tm Package. Document downloadable at: https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-circular-economy. The answer provided by public and private actors remains above all palliative: some technological development actions to optimise resource consumption and limit environmental impacts. Foresight studies at INRS are governed by two principles: They are an opportunity to promote multidisciplinarity within the institute by associating different teams and divisions, each of them contributing their different academic specialties and their different modes of intervention. Sci. Many foresight studies dedicated to the future of production emphasise the contribution of ICTs to the changes to come, namely through automation [24]. Consequently, a strategic foresight study has been conducted in order to assess the main consequences on occupational safety and health. These works contribute to the definition of the organisational and technical (even normative, for example [14]) framework of our study. 1) Make better use of finite resources. 952961. Hist. As such, the supplier will have to focus on the lifetime of the equipment. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11872. 101(Suppl. 1990, no. A systematic literature review. 29(6), 539550 (2018), Merli, R., Preziosi, M., Acampora, A.: How do scholars approach the circular economy? These works provided a knowledge basis from which more systematic approaches have been built. . It was then discussed in a plenary session, with special attention brought to future development hypotheses, including potential deviations from the current trend or even black swans. Read the full article about acircular economy by David McGinty at GreenBiz. In the context of this new era of economic opportunities, the European Commission (EC) launched on 2December 2015, the First Circular Economy Action Plan: Closing the loop An EU action plan for the Circular Economy which included measures to promote the transformation of the European linear model of the economy to a circular one by also boosting job creation and fostering global competitiveness and sustainable economic growth (European Commission, 2020a).
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