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Transitioning towards a circular (healthcare) economy: Circular Economy principles, leadership, policy and decision-making
Bart van Straten; Bruno Bruins; Tim Horeman · TU Delft Open · 2025
This book offers a comprehensive roadmap toward a circular and sustainable healthcare system, structured into three distinct parts. Part I describes circular principles and policy tactics. Chapter 1 outlines the essentials of sustainable healthcare and designates the paradox in daily practice of sustainability and the circular economy. In Chapter 2 the impact of leadership on policy together with best practices is discussed. The legislation and infrastructural web, in which many stakeholders and circular economy initiatives are strangled, is described. Despite the fact that politicians and policymakers are motivated to encourage sustainability, the infrastructure is designed to discourage circular economy projects. This chapter shows examples of setting-up intrinsic motivated teams of hospital staff, green teams, industry leaders and scientific motivated research teams. Swimming against the current is about the legislation paradox. In chapter 3 described as how legislation should be redesigned to accomplish the goals as set out in the green deal and the climate law. Part II serves as a practical guide to implementing circular strategies. In chapter 4 the reader is guided through the fundamentals of circular strategies by visualizing the circular economy. Chapter 5 reveals successful design strategies for products and processes which contribute to a zero-waste society. Using recycled materials by using waste as input for new products is described in chapter 6. In chapter 6 we will explore (surgical) waste as input for new products. Recycled should and could be used more. This is a fundamental concept within circular design principles but hardly used until this moment. Part III explores circular economy design principles on basis of successful examples. This part dives into real-world applications and measurable outcomes. It showcases successful circular design concepts and business models that have reshaped the market. Chapter 7: Is about leading by design. Success s
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An Introduction to Waste Management and Circular Economy
Stijn van Ewijk; Julia Stegemann · UCL Press · 2023
This introductory textbook provides an essential interdisciplinary guide to waste management and circular economy. It helps students to understand the drivers of waste, the environmental, social, and economic impacts of waste generation, and best practices and technologies for waste management, recycling, energy recovery and disposal. With helpful, full-colour diagrams throughout, each chapter includes learning objectives, introduction to concepts and themes, exercises and review sections, to guide students through the book. The textbook is ideal for teaching environmental engineering and science, as well as interdisciplinary environmental programmes.
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Creating a circular healthcare economy: Sustainable strategies for a circular healthcare
Bart van Straten; Letizia Alvino; Tim Horeman · TU Delft Open · 2023
Our world is the only planet, as far as we know, which harbors life. The number of humans on our planet has grown tremendously in recent centuries. In 1800 one billion humans occupied our earth; on 15 November 2022, this number reached 8 billion. A result of this growth, the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the primary greenhouse gas emitted by human activities, drastically increased. The increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere foster the long-term increase of our earth’s temperatures, also referred to as global warming. While the earth’s population grew, so did our mass consumption society. After the Second World War humanity witnessed gigantic global economic development with great technological improvements. Computers, laptops, airplanes, tablets and Internet of Things connected humans all over the world. The hunger for plastics and steel grew as all products had to be manufactured in ever-increasing volumes. As the economy developed, our consumption grew apace. The healthcare sector has seen the same increase of consumption. The number of patients grew, and so did the number of single-use medical products. As products become more complex and more different materials were combined., recycling became more difficult. Thus, hospitals transformed into waste factories with ever-growing waste streams. The consumption of (disposable) medical devices takes up scarce raw materials and contributes to the growing CO2 emissions. In this book, Van Straten, Alvino and Horeman present their findings on how to create a sustainable healthcare economy by introducing different circular strategies. In 9 chapters, they present a wide variation of studies as practical cases to show what strategies and actions can be taken in order to implement sustainable strategies for a circular healthcare. This book was written in line with the courses the authors developed at TU Extension School, the open online education edX platform of Delft University of Technology/TU D
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Sabores Conectados: Transformando la Gastronomía a través de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación
Juan Antonio Picoy-Gonzales; Rosaura Huarcaya-Taype; Omar Hans Contreras-Canto; Amanda Omonte-Vilca · Editorial Grupo AEA · 2023
El libro de investigación contiene informe sistematizado sobre la influencia de los tics en beneficio del sector gastronómico de la ciudad de Huánuco, cuyos resultados pueden producir un cambio significativo en el uso tecnologías de la información. Tuvo como objetivo determinar el grado de influencia de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en el desempeño laboral de las Pymes más reconocidas del sector gastronómico de la ciudad de Huánuco. El método aplicado tuvo como finalidad profundizar en el análisis e interpretación de los resultados. donde se utilizó el diseño no experimental, con un nivel explicativo correlacional descriptivo, se trabajó con una muestra de 50 trabajadores de Pymes del sector gastronomía, seleccionados por el tipo de muestreo por selección intencional a los que se les aplicó un cuestionario. Para estimar las estadísticas se utilizó estadística descriptiva e inferencial y para contrastar las hipótesis se aplicó la prueba de correlación. Con un resultado de P = 0.00, entre 0.00 y 0.19 en la escala Rho de Spearman. Se concluye, las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación ayuda en el desempeño laboral de las Pymes en el sector gastronómico en la ciudad de Huánuco.