Environmental impacts of a local circular economy business model a carbon and water footprint analysis for smartphone refurbishment

Climate change is creating harm for the environment and humanity. Companies contribute significantly to global warming and environmental destruction. Hence, to prevent the climate crisis, the traditional linear economy has been transformed. The circular economy is a way to create a sustainable econo...

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Päätekijä: Zumegen, Anna
Muut tekijät: Kauppakorkeakoulu, School of Business and Economics, Taloustieteet, Business and Economics, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
Aineistotyyppi: Pro gradu
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Julkaistu: 2020
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description Climate change is creating harm for the environment and humanity. Companies contribute significantly to global warming and environmental destruction. Hence, to prevent the climate crisis, the traditional linear economy has been transformed. The circular economy is a way to create a sustainable economy by decreasing the environmental impacts of companies like GHG emissions, resource usage, and environmental destruction. (Bocken et al., 2016). The growing ICT sector is an important actor in this area, particularly through the rapidly increasing amounts of WEEE, the rising GWP, and the increasing usage of resources. The inappropriate treatment of the toxic and harmful WEEE represents a growing problem (European Commission, 2020b), which can be decreased through smartphone refurbishment. This thesis discusses the benefits and drawbacks of smartphone refurbishment as a circular economy strategy with a special focus on the analysis of carbon and water footprints. The carbon footprint and water footprint calculations are done comprehensively for the case company ASW from Belgium, which works as an optimized example. The calculations are also done for less optimized refurbishment scenarios. The findings of the thesis suggest that smartphone refurbishment is environmentally beneficial over smartphone production. The carbon footprint of smartphone refurbishment (6.3922 – 24.22 kgCO2e/device) is significantly lower for every calculated scenario compared to the CF of a newly manufactured smartphone (83.83 kgCO2e/device). Similar, the WF of all scenarios (1161.54 – 2946.71 L/device) is significantly lower than the WF of smartphone production (12075.46 L/device). Furthermore, the refurbishment has the potential to decrease resource usage signifcantly. The thesis suggest that development and improvement of the infrastructure of smartphone refurbishment will lead to further decreased environmental impacts. Next to this, the thesis points out the research gap on the water usage in the ICT sector.
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title Environmental impacts of a local circular economy business model : a carbon and water footprint analysis for smartphone refurbishment
title_full Environmental impacts of a local circular economy business model : a carbon and water footprint analysis for smartphone refurbishment
title_fullStr Environmental impacts of a local circular economy business model : a carbon and water footprint analysis for smartphone refurbishment Environmental impacts of a local circular economy business model : a carbon and water footprint analysis for smartphone refurbishment
title_full_unstemmed Environmental impacts of a local circular economy business model : a carbon and water footprint analysis for smartphone refurbishment Environmental impacts of a local circular economy business model : a carbon and water footprint analysis for smartphone refurbishment
title_short Environmental impacts of a local circular economy business model
title_sort environmental impacts of a local circular economy business model a carbon and water footprint analysis for smartphone refurbishment
title_sub a carbon and water footprint analysis for smartphone refurbishment
title_txtP Environmental impacts of a local circular economy business model : a carbon and water footprint analysis for smartphone refurbishment
topic refurbishment Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen Corporate Environmental Management 20425 hiilijalanjälki kiertotalous vesijalanjälki älypuhelimet carbon footprint circular economy water footprint smartphones
topic_facet 20425 Corporate Environmental Management Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen carbon footprint circular economy hiilijalanjälki kiertotalous refurbishment smartphones vesijalanjälki water footprint älypuhelimet
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