Toward an integrated model of the circular economy: Dynamic waste input–output

Shinichiro Nakamura, Yasushi Kondo*

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Abstract

Since its development at the end of the previous century, the waste input–output (WIO) model has been extended to wide areas of industrial ecology including material flow analysis (MFA), life-cycle costing (LCC), regional analysis, and linear programming (LP)-based technology selection. To our knowledge, the dynamics of waste generation and recycling is an area of possible conceptual extension that remains least explored. Building upon our recent work on dynamic MFA, in this work, we develop a dynamic WIO (dWIO) model that fully considers the issue of quality in recycling that involves mixing, dissipation, and contamination.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)326-332
Number of pages7
JournalResources, Conservation and Recycling
Volume139
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Dec

Keywords

  • Alloy
  • Input–output economics
  • Refinery
  • Resource efficiency
  • Scrap

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Waste Management and Disposal
  • Economics and Econometrics

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