Print Email Facebook Twitter Circular economy practices in the leather industry Title Circular economy practices in the leather industry: A practical step towards sustainable development Author Moktadir, Md Abdul (University of Dhaka) Ahmadi, Hadi Badri (National Taipei University of Technology) Sultana, Razia (University of Dhaka) Zohra, Fatema Tuj (University of Dhaka) Liou, James J.H. (National Taipei University of Technology) Rezaei, J. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Date 2020 Abstract The concept of circular economy (CE), a recent popular global business trend, considerably minimizes waste and environmental pollution. However, studies exploring CE practices in the context of leather industry have been scant. To deal with this issue, this paper proposes a decision support framework for evaluating the challenges to CE practices in the context of leather industry. Best worst method, a generic decision support tool, is employed in the assessment process. The study findings reveal that “lack of financial support from authorities” is assigned the highest weight in the final ranking results. This indicates that the lack of financial facility poses a major challenge to the successful implementation of CE practices. The findings can assist industrial managers and authorities in taking the required actions to implement CE practices in the leather industry for the sustainable development of the leather sector. Subject Best worst methodCircular economyLeather industryWaste managementWaste minimization To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:380863d6-efbb-40c1-b10a-6e81d6ea961c DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119737 Embargo date 2020-05-16 ISSN 0959-6526 Source Journal of Cleaner Production, 251 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 Md Abdul Moktadir, Hadi Badri Ahmadi, Razia Sultana, Fatema Tuj Zohra, James J.H. Liou, J. Rezaei Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0959652619346074_main.pdf 1.5 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:380863d6-efbb-40c1-b10a-6e81d6ea961c/datastream/OBJ/view