1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Waste, Resources and the Circular Economy
The Handbook introduces, contextualises, critiques, and discusses a range of perspectives associated with the concept of the circular economy. These perspectives span an array of subjects including economics, environmental policymaking, sociology, environmental science, environmental and industrial engineering, management, international development, and human geography.
A fundamental underpinning of the Handbook is that it takes account of a wide range of sectors, as well as geographical perspectives that incorporate both a Global North and Global South world context. This approach is crucial because it is only within such a holistic perspective that the circular economy concept can truly be examined. In addition, these issues are examined both from a theoretical as well as a practical perspective, using real-world case studies for illustration.
Given its wide subject, sectoral, and geographical areas of focus, the Handbook should be of value not only for those undertaking research in the field of circular economy, but also stakeholders involved in policymaking, as well as decision-making on the front line.
1. Introduction: examining the concept of the circular economy
Terry Tudor and Cleber JC. Dutra
SECTION I
The need for and challenges surrounding circularity
2. Natural resources. Consumption, pollution, and health risks: developed versus developing economies
Giovanni Vinti and Mentore Vaccari
3. Consumption and materialism: from acquisitive to responsible materialism
Isadora do Carmo Stangherlin and John Thøgersen
4. Embedding more circular approaches to the management of resources
Louise Maxwell
5. Environmental justice, waste management, and the circular economy: global perspectives
Paul Cox
6. Resource consumption and the associated health risks: a brief overview
Terry Tudor
7. The Sustainable Development Goals as drivers for change
David C. Wilson
8. Triggers for industrial symbiosis: lessons learnt from twenty-five case studies
Karen Miller and Doroteya Vladimirova
9. Bought today, gone tomorrow? From linear to circular consumption
Melanie Jaeger-Erben
SECTION II
Measuring and implementing circularity
10. Africa – juxtaposition between rapid urbanisation, industrialisation, and the need to preserve traditional circular systems
Sally-Anne Kasner, Sarah O’Carroll
11. Circular start-ups: five business model archetypes as frontrunners of circular disruption
Marvin Henry and Julian Kirchherr
12. Ecodesign and circular design of products: concepts, assessment, and strategies
Vicente B. Vert and Eva Verdejo
13. Approaches to monitoring and evaluation of resource recovery from waste towards a circular economy
Eleni Iacovidou and Elena Lovat
14. Complexity and the circular economy: systems approaches for change
Martha Bicket
15. Circular economy meso-level planning: an approach with ‘distributed economies’
Mario Augusto Monteiro and Cleber JC. Dutra
SECTION III
Policy and legislative considerations
16. The role of policy in creating a more circular economy
Patrick J Mahon
17. Legal considerations for a circular economy
Sean Thomas
18. Economic and trade considerations of circular economy approaches
Paul Sheeran
19. Managing waste at the national and local levels
Christian Zurbrügg
SECTION IV
Sharing economies and capacity building
20. Making sustainable markets and the forming of a circular economy
Katy Mason and Thomas Jalili Tanha
21. Becoming eco-literate through experiential encounters with food
Gia Daprano
22. Implementing low carbon strategies – analysis of barriers
Johannes Fresner, Fabio Morea, Christina Krenn, Anton Kleshkov and Fabio Tomasi
23. Overcoming financial, social, and environmental challenges faced by cooperatives: case studies from the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Tania Nunes da Silva and Eugenio Avila Pedrozo
24. The informal recycling sector – environmental criminals or the future of the circular economy?
Mike Webster
25. Refugee camps and circular economy in Palestinian West Bank: challenges and opportunities
Marco Caniato and Valérie Thöni
SECTION V
Recycling
26. Exploring household dynamics for recycling in the UK: a case study of recycling habits in Greater London
Annabelle Boulay, Guy M. Robinson, Stewart Barr, Gareth Shaw, Alan Metcalfe
27. Circular start-ups: five business model archetypes as frontrunners of circular disruption
Marvin Henry and Julian Kirchherr
28. Enablers and barriers for industrial symbiosis: lessons learnt from twenty-five case studies
Doroteya Vladimirova and Karen Miller
29. A proposed approach for a solid waste collection system in an African rural town: a case study from Kenya
Mentore Vaccari
30. Circular economy opportunities in Africa – emerging sectors and missing narratives
Sally-Anne Kasner and Sarah O’Carroll
SECTION VI
Reuse
31. Modular Smartphones and Circular Design Strategies: The Shape of Things to Come?
Sabine Hielscher, Melanie Jaeger-Erben and Erik Poppe
32. The Use of By-Products in New Materials
Rory Doherty, Elizabeth Gilligan, Charlie Farrell, Sreejith Nanukuttan and Ruth Morrow
33. Using circular supply chains to create community biogas
Ananya Mukherjee
34. Circular economy initiatives in India: a case study approach
V. Madha Suresh
SECTION VII
Use of technologies
35. Product-service system business models and circular economy
Miying Yang
36. Circular business models in selected geographical contexts: an analysis of two cases
Gianmarco Bressanelli, Nicola Saccani and Marco Perona
37. Implementing low carbon strategies in SMEs: auditing strategies
Johannes Fresner, Fabio Morea, Christina Krenn, and Fabio Tomasi
38. Circular economy principles in Africa: the case of the off-grid solar in Kenya
Federico Magalini, Joe Segal, and Marco Meloni
39. Circular supply chain: emerging opportunities and challenges
Uthayasankar Sivarajah and Elizabeth Ragonga
40. Conclusion: closing thoughts
Terry Tudor and Cleber JC. Dutra
Biography
Terry Tudor has worked in the fields of sustainable waste management and circular economy since 2003. This work has been undertaken both in the United Kingdom as well as abroad (e.g., in Italy, Brazil, Barbados, and India). He works as a consultant. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Northampton, UK.
Cleber JC. Dutra is an associate professor and research fellow in sustainability management at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and the Technische Universität Berlin (Germany). He has been examining approaches to sustainability through multiparadigmatic perspectives as a mechanism to overcome its understanding shortcomings. His main areas of interest include innovation, sustainability, circular economy, multiorganisational programmes, resource efficiency, pro-environmental/sustainable behaviour, and CSR.
