There is an urgent and growing need to further advance the plastic waste management system globally in South Africa, due increasing impact of waste. This study focused on adequacy policies sustainably manage Policies address material supply systems options up hierarchy for them be effective support circularity. The used qualitative content analysis assess how evolution Africa aligned with natio...

Circular economy (CE) has attracted both media and academic interest. However, there is a lack of empirical work that clarifies the specific activities involved in CE at firm level. To fill this gap, article offers an analysis how firms disclose information about their associated with CE, based on extensive worldwide dataset sustainability reports from 1367 companies. The findings point to rath...

Residue hydrodesulfurization (RHDS) is a critical process in the petroleum refining industry for removing sulfur compounds from heavy residual oils. However, catalysts used RHDS can easily be deactivated by numerous factors, leading to reduced efficiency and economic benefits. The remanufacturing of spent useful strategy extending lifespan catalysts, reducing waste, improving sustainability. Th...

In this paper, we consider the choice of remanufacturing strategy a monopolist original equipment manufacturer under cap-and-trade regulation in presence assimilation effect. We model manufacturer’s optimal decision-makings and associated profits three different strategies. Our results indicate that effect reduces motivation to become engaged remanufacturing. Specifically, there exists threshol...

Decision-making for remanufacturing is more complicated than that of traditional manufacturing because used or new components can be selected to remanufacture products. It becomes difficult determine the various options and their subsequent effect on at same time. In fact, all decisions made in one activity will have a direct impact taken activities this affect profitability. Therefore, decisio...

The reverse logistics (RL) concept has become increasingly popular due to the rising socio-environmental crisis, encompassing climate changes, pollutions and numerous health issues caused by pollutions. Therefore, a bibliometric analysis was conducted on RL guide future research. This study utilised VOSviewer software conduct from 1995 2020. Precisely, 1146 papers were retrieved analysed identi...

Ever since the introduction of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in 1970s, their demand has increased exponentially with applications electric vehicles, smartphones, and energy storage systems. To cope increase ensuing environmental effects excessive mining activities waste production, it becomes crucial to explore ways manufacturing LIBs from resources that have already been extracted nature. It is...

Abstract Disassembly is the first operation in remanufacture, repair and recycling of products that have reached end their service life. Both productivity flexibility should be considered when using robots to carry out disassembly due complexities associated with returned for remanufacturing. Human-robot collaboration a flexible semi-automated approach mitigate against effects uncertainties fre...

The increased scrutiny of a product’s effects on the environment has led industry to embrace Environment Conscious Design and Manufacture (ECDM) practices. Disassembly of a product at the end of its useful life is an integral part of the ECDM paradigm. Disassembly facilitates the end-of-product life options such as recycling, remanufacture, reuse and safe disposal. As industries take active ste...