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1169. Do upcoming EU circular economy legislations require new OR applications?
Invited abstract in session TA-23: Policy and legislation for a circular economy, stream Circular Economy, Remanufacturing and Recycling .
Tuesday, 8:30-10:00Room: 82 (building: 116)
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Sonja Rosenberg
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| Institute for Industrial Production (IIP / KIT), KIT | |
| 2. | Frank Schultmann
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| Institute for Industrial Production, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
Abstract
Fostering and strengthening the circular economy (CE) with all of its dimensions is one objective of the European Union to reach its goal of becoming climate-neutral by the year 2050. Therefore, the EU has started with revision, extension, and the new development of circular economy regulation and guidelines.
We provide a comprehensive discussion that shows how operation research methods can underline the goals of the upcoming regulations and serve as decision support for actions of circular economy shareholders on the European market. Therefore, we develop case studies based on different European regulations. The EU legislations under consideration include the EU battery regulation, the directive on common rules promoting the repair of goods and the Eco-design requirements for sustainable products. We investigate how legal CE innovations affect different supply chain problems in case studies. Legal CE innovations include, for instance, digital product passports or the obligatory usage of recycled content in production. For each case study, we point out if the legal CE innovation is an emerging research field that needs to be investigated or if the OR community has picked up the problem.
Keywords
- Strategic Planning and Management
- OR in Environment and Climate change
- Reverse Logistics / Remanufacturing
Status: accepted
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