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Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry

September 20, 2024
Author(s)
Noah Last, Joshua D. Kneifel, Amy Costello, Catherine Houska, Katherine Morris
ASTM International's committee on sustainability (E60), in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), hosted the virtual "Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry" on October 10-11, 2023

Towards Sustainable Electronics: Exploring IC Reuse for Circular Economy Transformation

August 22, 2024
Author(s)
Nowell Stoddard, Lisa Paterson, Mark Schaffer, Tom Etheridge, Nehika Mathur, KC Morris, Lise Laurin, Amos Ncube
This perspective paper addresses the importance of responsible end of life (EOL) management of integrated circuits (ICs or chips), with a particular focus on the possibility of IC reuse as an avenue to address the high impacts of chip manufacturing and the

A Standards-Guided Approach for Formalizing Product Circularity Assessment Metrics

August 19, 2024
Author(s)
Junwon Ko, Sandwana Sneethan, Gisele Bortolaz Guedes, Fazleena Badurdeen, I.S. Jawahir, Buddhika Hapuwatte, KC Morris
The industrial transition towards a more sustainable Circular Economy (CE) emphasizes the need for products that align with CE principles and robust methods for assessing their circularity performance. However, ambiguities between metrics vs. indicators

Investigating the use of network analysis metrics to benchmark Industrial Symbiosis development

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Abheek Chatterjee, Oren Minsk, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Matthew Triebe, Daniel Kietzer, Sushma Kittali-Weidner, KC Morris, Nehika Mathur
Circular economy (CE) aims to reduce natural resource consumption, waste generation, and related detrimental environmental, social, and economic impacts by keeping valuable materials circulating in the economy. Industrial Symbiosis (IS) contributes to CE

A Critical Analysis of Circular Product Attributes and Limitations of Product Circularity Assessment Methods

May 29, 2024
Author(s)
Junwon Ko, Gisele Bortolaz Guedes, Fazleena Badurdeen, I.S. Jawahir, KC Morris, Vincenzo Ferrero, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Ryan Bradley, Ardeshir Mashhadi
The Circular Economy (CE) has been proposed as a strategy to promote the efficient use of resources, maximizing the benefits derived from materials and products through value recovery strategies, and minimizing waste generation. However, ambiguity remains

Standards as Enablers for a Circular Economy

June 30, 2023
Author(s)
KC Morris, Vincenzo Ferrero, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Noah Last, Nehika Mathur
A successful transition to a circular economy (CE) will require global participation, but the path to that transition will follow many unique routes depending on local situations. The transition must have rigorous technical underpinnings and well-conceived

Optimizing Product Life Cycle Systems for Manufacturing in a Circular Economy

April 26, 2023
Author(s)
Buddhika Hapuwatte, Nehika Mathur, Noah Last, Vincenzo Ferrero, Maya Reslan, KC Morris
Global population growth and increasing resource scarcity are necessitating sustainable manufacturing and circular economy (CE) practices. These practices require the decisions made at each product life cycle (PLC) stage consider sustainability and

Adapting Consumer Product Design to the Circular Economy

August 14, 2022
Author(s)
Vincenzo Ferrero, Buddhika Hapuwatte, KC Morris
Abstract Transition to a Circular Economy (CE) will be facilitated by information transfer between life cycle stages, and, particularly, the transition can be accelerated at the product design stage where the decisions have impact throughout the life cycle

Refocusing the Barriers to Sustainability for Small and Medium Manufacturers

February 14, 2022
Author(s)
Xavier R. Escoto, Demsas Gebrehewot, KC Morris
Sustainable manufacturing practices are a necessary component of sustainable development. Current practices in a linear economy—produce, consume, discard—will not be sufficient to sustain humanity over the long term. At the same time manufacturing is

Measuring Manufacturing’s Significance in the USA

December 16, 2020
Author(s)
Katherine C. Morris, Douglas S. Thomas
Economic value added is a primary metric for measuring manufacturing activity; however, this metric and others exclude approximately half of the economic activity necessary for producing manufactured goods. With the recent disruption in the supply of goods

Realizing Environmentally-Conscious Manufacturing in the Post-COVID-19 Era

December 16, 2020
Author(s)
Nancy Diaz-Elsayed, Julius Schoop, KC Morris
The unique and unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in significant disruptions to diverse manufacturing supply chains across the globe. The negative economic impacts of these unexpected and rapid changes in demand and available

A Decision Support Methodology for Integrated Machining Process and Operation Plans for Sustainability and Productivity Assessment

April 12, 2020
Author(s)
Qais Hatim, Christopher Saldana, Guodong Shao, Duckbong Kim, KC Morris, Paul Witherell, Sudarsan Rachuri, Soundar Kumara
In this paper, a systematic methodology is presented to enable environmental sustainability and productivity performance assessment for integrated process and operation plans at the machine cell level of a manufacturing system. This approach determines