Open AccessProposal for a circular economy for the recovery of value from fruit waste in packaging manufacturing
Author(s) -
Leidy Tatiana Chicaiza Pedraza,
Juan Carlos Robles Camargo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
dyna
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.164
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2346-2183
pISSN - 0012-7353
DOI - 10.15446/dyna.v88n217.91850
Subject(s) - circular economy , bioplastic , carbon footprint , production (economics) , supply chain , reverse logistics , value (mathematics) , delphi method , business , consumption (sociology) , order (exchange) , value added , environmental economics , waste management , natural resource economics , economics , engineering , greenhouse gas , computer science , microeconomics , marketing , ecology , social science , macroeconomics , finance , machine learning , artificial intelligence , sociology , biology
This article presents a circular economy model corresponding to the current state of fruit waste in Colombia and the impact that is being generated at a social, economic and environmental level. This model proposes the manufacturing of bioplastics based on fruit waste in order to minimize the consumption of fossil resources, carbon footprint and production cost. It also contributes to the generation of employment in the different links of the supply chain, as well as recovering the value of fruit residues through packaging manufacturing. The construction of the model was based on the identification of causes associated with the low recovery of value of fruit residues, through the review of secondary sources, which were later validated with the Delphi method.