Circular Economy for Sustainable Manufacturing Processes
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2023) | Viewed by 5457
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable design; sustainable manufacting; circular economy; industry 4.0; sustainable assessment; lifecycle assessment
Interests: territorial intelligence; urban studies; product life cycle management; sustainable manufacturing product; collective creativity: collaborative process
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Interest in circular economy research and its implementation has grown in the last decade. The control of waste within the industrial, urban or rural sectors of activity, and the efficiency–effectiveness of waste management processes is one of the main challenges of today’s society. Despite successive attempts over the last few decades, a sufficiently optimal control model has not been achieved. The transition to the circular economy seems to be the model of change necessary to achieve a society that is sustainably integrated into the planet.
The CE redefines the concept of economic growth to solve environmental and social problems. Its aim is to conceive a social metabolism that gradually decouples “consumption” from “use of (finite) resources”. To this end, it proposes the creation of a closed-loop system for the exchange of goods and services, which must be self-optimized (eco-efficient) and regenerative (eco-effective, with zero impact and with the capacity to reverse the damage caused). The global challenge is to convert the anthroposphere into an artificial ecosystem that works with the same synergy as natural ecosystems; this implies configuring productive systems as a second nature.
This Special Issue, “Circular Economy for Sustainable Manufacturing Processes”, solicits research papers that address and highlight the applications of circular economy in manufacturing processes. In particular, this Special Issue invites application based papers that fit within three broad areas; first, contributions to the knowledge of the circular economy area (reviews, new models, standards-based new and renewed manufacturing paradigms, etc.); second, the best practices of innovation and resulting impacts on manufacturing industry (pilot projects, success stories, future implementations); third, lessons learned from innovating projects and models of circular economy.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:
- New and renewed manufacturing paradigms from the circular economy;
- Standards-based of the circular economy in manufacturing processes;
- Circular economy and industry 4.0;
- Energy and circular economy in process industries (renewable energy, energy conservation, waste-to-energy, water–energy, etc.);
- Digitalisation and smart circular economy (smart waste management, smart eco-industrial parks, tehcnologies for the circular economy);
- Product lifecycle management;
- Collaborative project bases and collaborative processes in the circular economy;
- Circular economy business model innovation (frameworks, tools, business models);
- New trends and challenges in circular manufacturing processes; challenges to implement the circular economy; benefits, opportunities, and barriers;
- Drivers and approaches in manufacturing firms; current levels of circularity in the economy in small and medium enterprises, and large manufacturing companies;
- Pilot projects and implemented success cases (circular economy practices and implementation);
- Strategies for the circular economy in manufacturing (inputs circular economy, waste managemente, etc.);
- New methods for the circular economy in manufacturing (design, lifecycle assessment, waste input output analysis, indicators and metrics, taxonomies);
- Social dimensions of the circular economy in manufacturing processes.
Dr. M. Estela Peralta
Dr. Amanda Martín Mariscal
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- circular economy
- closed-loop material flows
- economy transition
- sustainable manufacturing
- manufacturing process