Journal
PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 522-538Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09537287.2018.1449264
Keywords
Circular flows; reuse; remanufacture and recycle; small and medium companies
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- Centre for Irish Business and Economic Performance, Queen's University Belfast (QUB)
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In an era of increased scarcity of resources and pollution, the concept of the circular economy is re-emerging to steer supply chains towards more sustainable business practices. The potential of value recovery provides opportunities for the creation of circular supply chains. Reverse flows and value recovery processes are scarcely studied in the context of fresh food supply chains. In this paper, we report findings from an empirical study of three fresh food supply chain networks by considering: product residual value, quantities available for recovery, value from recovery and markets for recovered products. We show that (1) financial value from recovery is a necessary condition for profitability of operations of any value recovery process in fresh food supply chains, but not for the occurrence of the corresponding loop itself; (2) reuse and remanufacturing loops likely feed into alternative markets, while recycling loops likely feed back into fresh food supply chains.
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