Reuse in practice
Reuse in practice
Ongoing efforts to seek more resource-efficient production and consumption, reuse have high potential to assist progress towards systems that are orientated to circular economy thinking. In order to achieve this aim, the motives, means and opportunities for reuse need to be understood such that best practice can be identified and decision-making consequently made more effective. This study compares and contrasts reuse within the car and car components sector with the clothing sector as a means to identify commonalities and differences, and seek facets of effective practice. The car sector is found to align more with financial motives than the clothing sector, the latter providing more marked social benefits. At the same time, three key aspects appear common to both sectors. First, whole lifecycle – cradle to cradle – approaches to enhancing reuse are emerging and have considerable merit from a circular economy perspective. Secondly, the internet has become a key tool for the facilitiation of reuse and is likely to grow further in this regard. Thirdly, decisions regarding the end-of-use of consumer products are critical and need to be better understood. We conclude that whilst some sector-specific adjustments may have to be implemented in future initiatives to promote and enhance reuse activities, overarching principles and optimum methods of reuse facilitation may well be common for several sectors.
reuse, circular economy, waste hierarchy, cars, clothing
Shaw, Peter
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Williams, Ian
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2 May 2018
Shaw, Peter
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Williams, Ian
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Shaw, Peter and Williams, Ian
(2018)
Reuse in practice.
Cossu, Raffaello
(ed.)
In SUM2018, 4th Symposium on Urban Mining and Circular Economy.
CISA Publisher.
13 pp
.
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Abstract
Ongoing efforts to seek more resource-efficient production and consumption, reuse have high potential to assist progress towards systems that are orientated to circular economy thinking. In order to achieve this aim, the motives, means and opportunities for reuse need to be understood such that best practice can be identified and decision-making consequently made more effective. This study compares and contrasts reuse within the car and car components sector with the clothing sector as a means to identify commonalities and differences, and seek facets of effective practice. The car sector is found to align more with financial motives than the clothing sector, the latter providing more marked social benefits. At the same time, three key aspects appear common to both sectors. First, whole lifecycle – cradle to cradle – approaches to enhancing reuse are emerging and have considerable merit from a circular economy perspective. Secondly, the internet has become a key tool for the facilitiation of reuse and is likely to grow further in this regard. Thirdly, decisions regarding the end-of-use of consumer products are critical and need to be better understood. We conclude that whilst some sector-specific adjustments may have to be implemented in future initiatives to promote and enhance reuse activities, overarching principles and optimum methods of reuse facilitation may well be common for several sectors.
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Published date: 2 May 2018
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Fourth Symposium Urban Mining and Circular Economy, , Bergamo, Italy, 2018-05-21 - 2018-05-23
Keywords:
reuse, circular economy, waste hierarchy, cars, clothing
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Raffaello Cossu
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