Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the need to adopt a restorative and regenerative model proposed by circular economy (CE). Methods: This article aims to identify the current status of packaging waste management in the CE context through an integrative literature review using...

Circular economy business models (CEBM) offer key opportunities to businesses, creating value and prospects for a sustainable growth and long-term prosperity. However, being an emerging approach, issues such as its development and implementation, equity and social integration, its impact and...

This article assesses the relative effects on household recycling across characteristics of individuals and their households, their counties, and the states in which they live. A representative United States sample assesses household recycling between 2005 and 2014, making possible a pooled...

The concept of a circular economy has instilled substantial hopes that it will help forging patterns of resource use compatible with Planetary Boundaries. Many countries are implementing circularity policies to reduce wastes and emissions, while also fostering economic growth. Research and...

Per capita renewable freshwater resources have been diminishing steadily over the years across the globe. India is no exception to the issue of water scarcity, with the problem being more severe in rapidly developing urban areas, where there is increasing pressure on existing freshwater...

This paper examines the macroeconomic and distributive impacts of carbon pricing reforms. We analyse hybrid schemes to recycle carbon tax revenues. Using a computable general equilibrium model, we provide new insights on the efficiency vs. equity trade-offs of carbon pricing policies in the...

This research analyses the supply chains of manufactured building materials used by the residential housing industry so as to assist the housing industry in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Understanding the structure of building-material supply chains is essential for policy development...

Recycling waste from used goods can substitute for scarce raw materials and reduce resource dependence. This paper presents a model of waste collection, recycling and final goods production using raw and recycled materials. Non-recycled waste must be safely stored by landfill to avoid...