A Circular Economy for Manufacturing Waste Management: Pathway Towards Sustainability (River Publishers Series in Energy Sustainability and Efficiency)

This book explores the impact of circular economy ideas on waste management in manufacturing industries. It highlights the need for a shift from linear to circular models, reducing waste, recycling materials, and creating efficient goods. The book also discusses the use of technologies like blockchain, IoT, and artificial intelligence in improving recycling and garbage monitoring. It also highlights the financial benefits of implementing circular economy principles, including reduced production costs and environmental compliance.
It offers doable approaches to cost-cutting, technology adoption, and the application of circular economy principles in actual production settings. It also offers structures and procedures for integrating circular economy principles into business plans and coordinating corporate sustainability objectives with international sustainability goals and industry norms. It is a useful tool for researchers and academics, providing both theoretical and practical insights into models of the circular economy. Additionally, it offers case studies for fresh investment prospects in waste-reduction technology and entrepreneurs in the circular economy. The book offers a thorough manual to support the manufacturing sector's shift to a more sustainable, circular economy.

Dr. (Capt.) Rakesh Kumar is an eminent educationist and decorated army officer with 26 years of experience. His areas of expertise are finance, business law, labor law, technology, and his teaching concentration includes finance, business law, labor law, technology. He is an interdisciplinary researcher. He is also involved in the course and syllabus design and development of various management topics, including an analytics and management curriculum. He served in the Indian Army for more than 23 year in management, academic, operational, and training. He has published more than 75 research papers in leading databases. He is the editor of four books. He has published 33 Indian Patents. He has been part of the board of study, board of examination, and the evaluation department in government organizations. He has completed M.COM, MBA (2 years PGDM), PGDCA, PGDBM, etc. He is also pursuing an MA (Economics) and is a company secretary. He was part of Uttaranchal University and is currently at the Research faculty in Graphic Era Deemed to be University.
Dr. Sachi Nandan Mohanty was recognized as a top 2% world scientist by Stanford University and Elsevier for the year 2023. He received his PostDoc from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in the year 2019 and his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in the year 2015, with an MHRD scholarship from the Government of India. He has authored/edited 42 books, published by IEEE-Wiley, Springer, Wiley, CRC Press, NOVA and DeGruyter. He was awarded the best thesis award first prize by the Computer Society of India in the year 2015. He has guided 9 Ph.D. Scholars and 23 postgraduate students. He has published 241 papers in international journals of repute. He has been awarded many awards and fellowships during his career including Fellow of Institute of Engineers, IETE, Ambassador European Alliance Innovation (EAI), and Senior member of IEEE Computer Society Hyderabad chapter.

Isaías Scalabrin Bianchi holds a Ph.D. in Technology and Information Systems from the University of Minho, Portugal, and has served as a visiting researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is a civil servant at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where he has held various management roles since 2010. Additionally, he serves as a professor in the Master’s Program in Management at the same university. His research interests include IT governance, information technology business process management, business and artificial intelligence, and digital transformation and innovation, with a particular focus on public organizations and higher education institutions. His research has been published in prestigious IS conferences and international journals. Since 2020, he has also worked as a visiting professor at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, where he teaches and supervises Ph.D. students in the areas of digital transformation, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and supply chain management. He leads research projects funded by the Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan. Additionally, he co-supervises master's students at the University of Minho and Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Isaías has achieved Moodle Educator Competence through the Moodle Educator Certification Program. Furthermore, He has edited and published three books with Springer and has also served as a guest editor for several indexed journals.