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What is Cradle-to-Cradle

The Circular Economy and Its Implications on Sustainability and the Green Supply Chain
It is a framework to explain how to achieve circular economy. It seeks to design products, production processes and post production processes efficient and waste free in circular flows where all is used.
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Circular Supply Chain and Business Model in Apparel Industry: An Exploratory Approach
María del Mar Alonso-Almeida (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain) and José Miguel Rodriguez-Anton (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8109-3.ch004
Abstract
Today, companies are trying to move from an existing linear business model of production to a circular one. This transition is not easy and demands contextual changes beyond the control of the company. Circular economy (CE) pursues closing material flows in productive systems to maximize the utilization of available resources. Thus, different circles to reduce, reuse, recycle, re-manufacture, recover, and recycle are produced along supply chain during the cycle of life of a product. Despite an innovative apparel, little is known about the companies with disruptive business models and supply chain structures that have emerged in the recent years.
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Sustainable Business Models Implementation in Industry: Strategies and Challenges – A Systematic Review
The safe and potentially infinite circulation of materials and nutrients in a cycle.
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