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| Personal Name | Sirot, Ricardo Jr. A. |
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| Resource Title | Quantification of Circularity of Products from Plastic Waste in the Philippines Through Product Circularity Assessment |
| Date Issued | 31 March 2026 |
| Abstract | Mismanagement of post-consumer plastics is a global issue wherein plastics end up in landfills and bodies of water after their useful life posing significant threat both to human health and to the environment. Most of the existing circularity tools rely primarily on quantitative data throughout the life cycle, giving much focus to the use phase and end-of-life, not so much on the pre-production phase. Extensive records of data at the product level are uncommon among developing countries like the Philippines which makes it even more difficult to evaluate circularity at the product level. The study aims to quantify the circularity of household furniture and construction products from plastic wastes in the Philippines. The quantification of the circularity of the upcycled plastic products began by identifying the considerations and preferred circular strategies of the manufacturers in upcycling plastics through a series of questionnaires during online interviews among local plastic product manufacturers and members of the academia. The relative potential product circularity scores were calculated after based on the responses using the Concept Circularity Evaluation Tool (CCET) (Albaek et al., 2020). Economy related production considerations had 35% of the total considerations. Environmental and technological considerations followed each with 25% of the total considerations. Societal and human considerations had 10% and 5% of the considerations, respectively. From the 26 circular production strategies, the good environmental profiling of materials was the most relevant strategy to both household furniture and construction products with an average performance score of 2.91 out of 3.00. Among the 13 stages of the product lifecycle, the raw materials sourcing was the top priority. The compression-molded school chairs got the highest potential circularity among the household furniture with a score of 43.57 out of 100 followed by injection-molded school chairs with 40.63, an |
| Degree Course | MS in Environmental Engineering |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Circular Economy; Plastic Recycling; Post-Consumer Plastics; Waste Management; EPR Law |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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