An Insight into the Application of Gradations of Circularity in the Food Packaging Industry: A Systematic Literature Review and a Multiple Case Study
dc.contributor.author | Tanveer, U | |
dc.contributor.author | Ishaq, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Oqueli, T | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-09T12:26:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-02-07 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-02-09T11:23:29Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Given its unsustainable growth, the food packaging industry (FPI) has become a priority industry in the circular economy. Given the academic significance attributed to the gradations of circularity in maximising resource efficiency in the food packaging industry, this paper aims to identify the current state of the application of those gradations of circularity in the FPI by finding the least and most commonly used circular strategies in the FPI. Moreover, it aims to identify the drivers of and barriers to the implementation of the gradations of circularity and the levers for overcoming such barriers through SLR using multiple case studies, namely five small-medium enterprises (SMEs) in the FPI that each represent one of the five least implemented circular strategies. The research identified that the efforts of the FPI toward adopting circular strategies were not aligned with the gradations of circularity. Based on the research findings, a lever–barrier matrix is proposed as a toolkit for SMEs planning a transition toward the circular economy or are in the transition phase. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 15(4), article 3007 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043007 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/132448 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-7957-2989 (Tanveer, Umair) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_GB |
dc.subject | circular economy (CE) | en_GB |
dc.subject | food packaging industry (FPI) | en_GB |
dc.subject | drivers | en_GB |
dc.subject | barriers and levers | en_GB |
dc.subject | lever–barrier matrix | en_GB |
dc.title | An Insight into the Application of Gradations of Circularity in the Food Packaging Industry: A Systematic Literature Review and a Multiple Case Study | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-09T12:26:41Z | |
exeter.article-number | 3007 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from MDPI via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability Statement: The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to primary data collection and to protect the identities of the participants (interviews were conducted and transcribed). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2071-1050 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Sustainability | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Sustainability, 15(4) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-01-24 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-02-07 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-02-09T12:25:14Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-02-09T12:26:44Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-02-07 |
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