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Workshop: “Indicators and Metrics for Socially

Inclusive Waste Management and Resource Efficiency in Supply Chains: Measuring and Reporting to Embed Sustainability in Policy and Practice”

• Dr. Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour

Current Position: Senior Lecturer at the University of

Strathclyde, Theme Leader of the Engineering Management

Group, and Academic Director of the MSc courses in SCM

Research Themes: Moving towards Sustainable Operations Management

Main Findings of Previous Research

National Policy for Solid Waste (NPSW) Challenges of Effective Adoption (Jabbour et al, 2014):

• Specific goals to be achieved are vague;
• There is a lack of coordination among manufacturers,

distributors, and traders for an effective storage, collection, and recycling process. Cost and benefit sharing across supply chains and partners will need to be determined.

Main Findings of Previous Research

Critical Success Factors for Adoption of GSCM Practices in the Battery Sector in Brazil (Jabbour, Mauricio, and Jabbour, 2017):

• Information system and training are critical success factors for

the adoption of GSCM practices due to the fact that ‘the lack of knowledge in supply chains create barriers to information sharing’;

• Measurement is a CSF because of the difficult in verifying the

performance of reverse logistics to reinstate materials and products to manufacturers.

Current Project and Avenues for Collaboration

‘Unlocking a circular economy within the drink sector in Scotland through emerging manufacturing technologies’ Context: By means emerging technologies (for instance, sensors) is possible to trace post-consumption packaging to be able to recycle them.

Current Project and Avenues for Collaboration

Purpose:

• to classify affordable solutions and technologies to trace post-

consumption packaging, thus enabling circular economy principles in particularly within the Drink sector in Scotland.

• to identify levels of awareness of applications of those

technologies for managing disposal used products and packaging in that sector.

Current Project and Avenues for Collaboration

Justification:

• Pressure from regulations related to extended producer

responsibility in terms of managing the final disposal of products and packaging;

• Drinks bottles are key to tackling plastic pollution;
• Even that plastic bottles can be recyclable, the main problem

is to recover the packaging to manufacturers.

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• pportunity!

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