Circular Economy: Questions for Responsible Minerals, Additive Manufacturing and Recycling of Metals
By D. Giurco, A. Littleboy, T. Boyle, J. Fyfe, S. White. 2014
110 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The concept of the circular economy proposes new patterns of production, consumption and use, based on circular flows of resources. Under a scenario where there is a global shift towards the circular economy, this paper discusses the advent of two parallel and yet-to-be-connected trends for Australia, namely: (i) responsible minerals supply chains and (ii) additive manufacturing, also known as 3D production systems. Acknowledging the current context for waste management, the paper explores future interlinked questions which arise in the circular economy for responsible supply chains, additive manufacturing, and metals recycling. For example, where do mined and recycled resources fit in responsible supply chains as inputs to responsible production? What is required to ensure 3D production systems are resource efficient? How could more distributed models of production, enabled by additive manufacturing, change the geographical scale at which it is economic or desirable to close the loop? Examples are given to highlight the need for an integrated research agenda to address these questions and to foster Australian opportunities in the circular economy.
Subfields: Building and Construction, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy and Management
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8e593676bf8ef5707b563f147ed85fb1e33d64be
Citations in the corpus
- Sustainability and the circular economy: A theoretical approach focused on e-waste urban mining (2019, unknown): “The application of the principles of sustainable development to the mining sector has been extensively discussed (Lins and Horwitz, 2007; Gomes et al., 2014; Giurco et al., 2014; Vintró et al., 2014; Zvarivadza, 2018).”
- Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review (2019, unknown): “2001) x (Giurco et al. 2014) x (Lahrour and Brissaud 2018) x (Le, Paris, and Mandil 2017a) x (Le, Paris, and Mandil 2017b) x (Leino, Pekkarinen, and Soukka 2016) x (Ma et al.”