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Circular Economy Analysis Applying Ellen MacArthur Model: Spanish Glass Sector Case

2022; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-030-95967-8_2

2198-0772

Jesús Morcillo-Bellido, E. Santos-Iscoa, L. Isasi-Sánchez,

Sustainable Industrial Ecology

Circular economyCircular economy (CE) has reached a quite relevant position on academic research studies nowadays, and it has been considered a key driver for long-term organization supply chains sustainabilitySustainability and competitiveness increase. Some theoretical models have been developed trying to identify the most relevant key parameters and conditions that allow to define a specific supply chain, or a sector or organization, as "circular economyCircular economy practice". Between the models, one of them was developed and established by the well-known Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF). This research tries to analyze the applicability and fulfillment of EMF model to the Spanish glass sectorSpanish glass sector, through a deep analysis of real practices already applied in this industrial sector. After the analysis, it is possible to infer that this sector meets almost all the EMF model characteristics. Nevertheless, there is still some run for circularity improvement in the sector, since still renewable energy application is below current demanding standards.