A complex circular-economy quality indicator for assessing production systems at the micro level
Authors:
- Zygmunt Kowalski,
- Joanna Kulczycka,
- Marcin Banach,
- Agnieszka Makara
Abstract
Measuring circular-economy progress requires indicators to examine the implementation of management systems. A complex quality indicator for assessing production systems at the circular-economy micro level was proposed. One innovative aspect of this evaluation of quality indicators is the classification of a set of sixty selected options divided into four core groups (technical, environmental, economic, and social). The second one is the use of a trimmed-mean method to summarize the individual options score into core groups and complex circular-economy indicators of analyzed production systems. The individual options were weighed according to indices defined by the professional team. Here is presented a case study of the use of developed complex quality indicators, including a comparison of two sodium tripolyphosphate production processes. The calculated indicator of the new method was higher, at 204.8%, than the indicator of the old method. This confirms the significant advantage of the new technology.
- Record ID
- CUT330aa80a24c54f1cbfa5d0dddc2779c1
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Sustainability, ISSN , e-ISSN 2071-1050, Biweekly
- Issue year
- 2023
- Vol
- 15
- No
- 18
- Pages
- [1-17]
- Article number
- 13495
- Other elements of collation
- schem.; tab.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 15-17; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 53; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 15, Iss. 18
- Keywords in English
- circular economy, microlevel, quality indicator, complex quality method, trimmed mean
- ASJC Classification
- ; ;
- DOI
- DOI:10.3390/su151813495 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/18/13495 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 100
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- Publication indicators
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT330aa80a24c54f1cbfa5d0dddc2779c1/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT330aa80a24c54f1cbfa5d0dddc2779c1
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