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Search Publications by: Buddhika Hapuwatte (IntlAssoc)

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Challenges and Opportunities in the Voluntary Carbon Markets

October 7, 2024
Author(s)
Pamela M. Chu, Noah Last, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Clayton Porkorny, Vishal Agrawal
With the increasing need to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions, the voluntary carbon market (VCM) provides a platform to help organizations reach net-zero emission goals through the purchase of carbon offsets. Carbon offsets provide a means to compensate

Quantifying High Density Polyethylene Flows in the United States using Material Flow Analysis

August 20, 2024
Author(s)
Abheek Chatterjee, Nehika Mathur, Daniel Figola, Matthew Triebe, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Ashley Hartwell, Katherine Morris
A Circular Economy (CE) aims to reduce natural resource consumption, waste generation, and related detrimental environmental, social, and economic impacts by retaining valuable materials in the economy as long as possible. This research focuses on the

A Standards-Guided Approach for Formalizing Product Circularity Assessment Metrics

August 19, 2024
Author(s)
Junwon Ko, Sandwana Sneethan, Gisele Bortolaz Guedes, Fazleena Badurdeen, I.S. Jawahir, Buddhika Hapuwatte, KC Morris
The industrial transition towards a more sustainable Circular Economy (CE) emphasizes the need for products that align with CE principles and robust methods for assessing their circularity performance. However, ambiguities between metrics vs. indicators

Investigating the use of network analysis metrics to benchmark Industrial Symbiosis development

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Abheek Chatterjee, Oren Minsk, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Matthew Triebe, Daniel Kietzer, Sushma Kittali-Weidner, KC Morris, Nehika Mathur
Circular economy (CE) aims to reduce natural resource consumption, waste generation, and related detrimental environmental, social, and economic impacts by keeping valuable materials circulating in the economy. Industrial Symbiosis (IS) contributes to CE

A Critical Analysis of Circular Product Attributes and Limitations of Product Circularity Assessment Methods

May 29, 2024
Author(s)
Junwon Ko, Gisele Bortolaz Guedes, Fazleena Badurdeen, I.S. Jawahir, KC Morris, Vincenzo Ferrero, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Ryan Bradley, Ardeshir Mashhadi
The Circular Economy (CE) has been proposed as a strategy to promote the efficient use of resources, maximizing the benefits derived from materials and products through value recovery strategies, and minimizing waste generation. However, ambiguity remains

Standards as Enablers for a Circular Economy

June 30, 2023
Author(s)
KC Morris, Vincenzo Ferrero, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Noah Last, Nehika Mathur
A successful transition to a circular economy (CE) will require global participation, but the path to that transition will follow many unique routes depending on local situations. The transition must have rigorous technical underpinnings and well-conceived