Best Practice for Right to Repair and Supply Chain Regulations: High-reparability Modular Smartphone Usage Model Mitigates Environmental Hotspots
Highlights of Sustainability,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
4(1), С. 38 - 55
Опубликована: Фев. 20, 2025
Two-thirds
of
the
global
population
own
mobile
phones
or
smartphones.
Yet
their
short
service
life—often
limited
to
just
a
few
years—leads
frequent
replacements,
excessive
raw
material
consumption,
and
rising
electronic
waste.
This
study
evaluates
environmental
benefits
highly
modular
repairable
smartphone,
based
on
real-world
usage.
Compared
conventional
smartphones
with
an
average
lifespan
2.5
years,
this
device
achieves
five
enabled
by
user
engagement
design
that
facilitates
easy
repairs.
finding
is
substantiated
customer
surveys.
Verified
through
manufacturer
data,
our
life
cycle
assessment
reveals
40%
reduction
in
climate
emissions,
energy
use,
water
usage,
land
occupation.
A
high-resolution
hotspot
analysis
significant
reductions
impacts
along
supply
chain,
particularly
mining
energy-intensive
processes.
The
advanced
usage
model—aligns
European
Commission’s
“Right
Repair”
chain
legislations—provides
scalable
best-practice
example
enhance
smartphone
sustainability
alleviate
pressures.
Язык: Английский
Assessment of Circular Economy Implementation in Municipal Waste Management Through Performance Indicators and Citizens’ Opinion in a City in Western Greece
Sustainability,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
17(5), С. 2265 - 2265
Опубликована: Март 5, 2025
Municipal
solid
waste
management
(MSWM)
is
an
advantageous
subject
for
implementing
circular
economy
(CE)
strategies.
In
this
context,
the
generation
and
collection
steps
of
MSWM
in
third
largest
Greek
city
(Patras),
western
Greece,
were
evaluated
according
to
proposed
CE
indicators.
Public
opinion
knowledge
on
also
a
small
sample
citizens
from
Municipality
Patras
(207
individuals)
through
questionnaire
survey.
Results
showed
that
(a)
performance
indicators
objectively
assessed
circularity
MSWM;
(b)
fared
better
than
Greece
EU
some
[waste
(kg
per
capita
×
year),
food
year)]
worse
others
[food
composting
(%
w/w),
WEEE
recycling
year)];
(c)
have
not
adopted
practices
their
management;
(d)
there
clear
reluctance
change
older
individuals.
Based
these
results,
recommendations
improvement
made.
These
results
may
aid
delineating
existing
conditions
large
eastern
Mediterranean
cities
contribute
transition
toward
reduction
disposal
increase
material
reuse.
Язык: Английский