Model | Elements |
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Delivery on demand (DOD) | Producing a product or providing a service only when a consumer demand has been quantified and confirmed |
Sharing models and collaborative consumption (SCC) | Industrial ports allow and promotes facilitating sharing of under-utilized products or equipment, and can therefore reduce demand for new products or equipment, and their embedded raw materials. It also enhance utilization and capacity management. (Sharing) |
Design for recycling or dematerialization (DFR) | Industrial ports demand from suppliers to modify designs to be more modular and reengineer to allow more recycling or dematerialization (maintain/prolong) |
Retain Product Ownership (RPO) or Product as a Service (PSS) | Industrial port suppliers and contractors offer products for use with retention of products ownership which incentivizes increase in resource productivity along the whole life cycle (reduce/redistribute) |
Product Life Extension (PLE) | Industrial ports extend the use period of existing products, slow the flow of constituent materials through the economy, and reduce the rate of resource extraction and waste generation (refurbish/remanufacture) |
Resource Recovery, Recycle and Upcycle (RRU) | Industrial ports host facilities that recover usable resources or energy from waste or by-products. Ports offer logistics capabilities as an added-value service. (recycle) |
Green Supply Service (GSS) | Port suppliers replace traditional material inputs derived from virgin resources with bio-based, renewable, or recovered materials, reduce demand for virgin resource extraction in the long run (parts and product manufacturing/service provider/purchasing) |
Sustainable Food, Agriculture and Aquaculture (SFA) | Organizations in the port can multiply the value of this sector with product diversification, product differentiation, high-value and premium-quality products and services, waste reduction, resource and land use efficiency improvement. Reduction of food waste should be a priority. (cascading & farming and collection) |
Cascading for Medical and Wellness (CMW) (by product) | The principle of cascading, the sequential and consecutive use of resources, is a potential method to create added value in circular economy (CE) practices. Cascading can be applied for other sectors such as food by-product or wood, textiles, coffee grounds and tyres (cascading) |
Bioenergy, Biomass and Biochemical Production (BBB) | Industrial ports explore production of energy with non-fossil fuels. This vision will require intensive research in energy storage systems. As for the materials and biochemical sector, cutting-edge technologies need to be developed and employed to convert biomass and agricultural by-products to high-value commodities such as bioplastics, fibers and pharmaceuticals. (Bio-feedstock, anaerobic digestion, regeneration) |