Editors:
- Highlights the notion of Circular Economy (CE) under the umbrella of Sustainability
- Discusses circular economy in terms of assessment with various case studies
- Contributions from leading experts in industry and academia
- Presents how CE uses resources for extended periods and maximizes gains after the life cycle of the product
Part of the book series: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes (EFEPP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book highlights the notion of Circular Economy under the umbrella of Sustainability because of the widespread momentum it is gaining. Today the whole world is certainly in emergent need of an alternative system to traditional economy which is linear, i.e. make, use and dispose to get rid-off the waste and very important to ensure continuous use of resources, which is possible by the advent of circular economy. A circular economy aims to utilize the resources in use for as long as possible, extract the maximum value from them during use, then recover and regenerate products and materials at the end of each service life vis-Ã -vis traditional linear model. This book discusses circular economy in terms of assessment with various case studies.
Editors and Affiliations
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Head of Sustainability, SgT and API, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
About the editor
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Ecological Footprint and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decades of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Circular Economy
Book Subtitle: Assessment and Case Studies
Editors: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series Title: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3698-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3697-4Published: 28 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3700-1Published: 29 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3698-1Published: 27 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2345-7651
Series E-ISSN: 2345-766X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 220
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 65 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Structural Materials, Economic Policy, Environmental and Sustainability Education