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Weelden, E (author), Mugge, R. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author)In the transition towards a circular economy, refurbishment can be applied to regain value from used products, and to reduce waste. Refurbishment is a process in which a professional company collects and restores used products in order to resell these products to new consumers. Building on insights from the remanufacturing literature, this...journal article 2016
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Mugge, R. (author), Jockin, B.G.W. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author)As smartphones are being replaced at an increasing rate, it becomes more and more important to find ways to reuse (parts of) existing phones. This research investigates the potential of selling refurbished smartphones using a quantitative study. An online survey was conducted questioning 250 respondents, in which the perceived consumer risks and...journal article 2017
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Weissbrod, Ilka (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author)This research paper shows how a firm pursues innovation activities for economic, social and environmental value creation in the context of time sensitivity. We make a conceptual link between lean startup thinking, triple bottom line value creation, and organizational capabilities. The case study firm uses a novel experimentation approach to...journal article 2017
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Davis, Chris B. (author), Aid, Graham (author), Zhu, B. (author)Research on value pathways for organic wastes has been steadily increasing in recent decades. There have been few considerably broad overview studies of such materials and their valuation potential in the bio-based economy in part because of the vast multitude of materials and processes that can be used to produce energy carriers, chemicals,...journal article 2017
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Manninen, Kaisa (author), Koskela, Sirkka (author), Antikainen, Riina (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Dahlbo, Helena (author), Aminoff, Anna (author)The circular economy (CE) can be a driver for sustainability and CE can be promoted and supported by the creation of new and innovative business models, which embed CE principles into their value propositions throughout the value chains. This study focuses on the environmental value propositions of the CE business models. The term environmental...journal article 2018
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Kane, Grace (author), Bakker, C.A. (author), Balkenende, R. (author)The framework of design for the circular economy is increasingly used in industry to improve product sustainability and decrease costs, and in academia various models have been developed to guide circular design. However, in the medical sector, although it generates a large amount of waste, application of circular design principles is...journal article 2018
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Prendeville, S.M. (author), Cherim, Emma (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author)Urbanisation and climate change are urging cities to chart novel paths towards sustainable futures. Many cities are turning to the alluring 'circular economy' (CE) concept to guide this redirection. The CE concept re-imagines how flows of resources moving through economies might be 'closed'. Here, we explore this new 'circular city' agenda by...journal article 2018
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Zairul, Mohd (author), Wamelink, J.W.F. (author), Gruis, V.H. (author), Heintz, John L. (author), Nasir, Nasyairi Mat (author)The demand for housing and affordable housing specifically will always become challenges for the government of the day. The solutions at the moment between conventional construction and IBS facing quality and costing problems respectively. In this article, it proposes the introduction of circular economy in a flexible housing project. To...journal article 2018
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van der Leer, Janneke (author), van Timmeren, A. (author), Wandl, Alex (author)The Circular Economy (CE) is receiving interest worldwide as a way to overcome the currently dominating linear and wasteful production and consumption models of our society. Currently the implementation of CE thinking into practice is still in an early stage. As the main hubs of consumption and to a more limited extent also, production,...journal article 2018
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Amenta, L. (author), van Timmeren, A. (author)Wastescapes are the result of unsustainable linear growth processes and their spatial consequences within the context of urban metabolic flows and related infrastructure. They represent the operational infrastructure for waste management and include Drosscapes, generating complex relations with the servicing and surrounding territory. In...journal article 2018
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Brown, P.D. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Balkenende, R. (author)We investigate why companies collaborate within the circular oriented innovation process. The purpose is to understand what motives trigger collaborative circular oriented innovation, as well as conditions, drivers and barriers. First, we define circular oriented innovation building on sustainable oriented innovation literature. Subsequently,...journal article 2019
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Hopff, Birgit (author), Nijhuis, S. (author), Verhoef, Leendert (author)To what extent can transformation and development processes on a university or other campus fit in with the principles of circularity? This paper builds a bridge between the more theoretical approach of the circular economy and daily practice in campus development, using semi-structured in-depth interviews with a broad range of stakeholders in...journal article 2019
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Tunn, V.S.C. (author), Fokker, Richard (author), Luijkx, K.A. (author), de Jong, S.A.M. (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author)Access-based product-service systems (AB-PSS) have the potential to lower environmental impacts. Currently, a lack of consumer acceptance and, consequently, low adoption levels of AB-PSS are challenges preventing the realisation of their sustainability potential. This study proposes temporary product customisation to lower barriers for the...journal article 2019
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van Stijn, A. (author), Gruis, V.H. (author)Purpose: The transition to a circular economy in the built environment is key to achieving a resource-effective society. The built environment can be made more circular by applying circular building components. The purpose of this paper is to present a design tool that can support industry in developing circular building components. Design...journal article 2019
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Tunn, V.S.C. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), van den Hende, E.A. (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author)Combining sustainable consumption with the circular economy concept could help tackle challenges, such as resource scarcity and climate change by reducing resource throughput and increasing cycling of products and materials within the economic system, thereby reducing emissions and virgin material use. To achieve sustainable consumption in a...journal article 2019
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Sauerwein, M. (author), Doubrovski, E.L. (author), Balkenende, R. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author)Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is acknowledged for its potential to support sustainable design. In this paper, we explore whether the opportunities that additive manufacturing offers for sustainable design are also useful when designing for a circular economy, and to what extent additive manufacturing can support design...journal article 2019
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Kozma, András (author), Odenbreit, Christoph (author), Braun, Matthias (author), Veljkovic, M. (author), Nijgh, M.P. (author)Circular Economy refers to a move from linear business models, in which products are manufactured from raw materials, used and then discarded, to circular business models where products or parts are re-used, remanufactured or recycled. Structural steel is highly compatible with this concept; however, when steel-concrete composite structures are...journal article 2019
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Delikonstantis, Evangelos (author), Sturm, G.S.J. (author), Stankiewicz, A.I. (author), Bosmans, Anouk (author), Scapinello, Marco (author), Dreiser, Christian (author), Lade, Oliver (author), Brand, Stefan (author), Stefanidis, G. (author)In this work, we report on air/N<sub>2</sub> gasification of a byproduct stream from an industrial fermenter in a tubular microwave plasma reactor to investigate the feasibility of the technology for organic compounds valorization, given the limited number of relevant works in the literature. In this context, an operating window regarding air...journal article 2019
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Schraven, D.F.J. (author), Bukvić, Uroš (author), Di Maio, F. (author), Hertogh, M.J.C.M. (author)Recent literature has recognized the difficulty of implementing Circular Economy (CE) in supply chains. This has not yet led to a clear understanding of the reasons. This is critical to address, because the difficulty stalls the CE transition and suspends its benefits. Therefore, this paper investigates the reasons for the difficulty of...journal article 2019
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Amenta, L. (author), Attademo, Anna (author), Remøy, H.T. (author), Berruti, Gilda (author), Cerreta, Maria (author), Formato, Enrico (author), Palestino, Maria Federica (author), Russo, Michelangelo (author)Resource consumption and related waste production are still rapidly increasing all over the world, leading to social and environmental challenges and to the production of the so-called ‘wastescapes’. Peri-urban areas—in-between urban and rural territories—are particularly vulnerable and prone to develop into wastescapes because they are...journal article 2019