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Barriers to circular economy implementation in designing of sustainable medical waste management systems using a new extended decision-making and FMEA models

  • Circular Economy Application in Designing Sustainable Medical Waste Management Systems
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The idea of the circular economy (CE) has gained prominence in the policies of the European Union (EU), commerce, and academic studies. Basically, CE is capable of achieving the best value and resolving many of the systemic challenges in the society and commerce of a country, thus leading to sustainable development and preventing irreparable damage to the environment. Medical waste management has proved a daunting challenge with the increase in the global population and the demand for medical services. Fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making approaches try to cover the different and uncertain views of decision-makers (DMs). The present study suggests a novel strategy based on multi-objective optimization using the ratio analysis (MOORA) in the area of spherical fuzzy sets (SFSs) to counterbalance the disadvantages of the failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) method, such as the lack of weight assignment for risk factors and consideration of uncertainty. In the proposed method, first, the barriers are identified using the FMEA method, and the risk factors are given values. Then, the barriers identified using MOORA are prioritized in the spherical fuzzy (SF) area. The computational procedure of the proposed methodology is established through a case study of the barriers to circular economy implementation in designing sustainable medical waste management systems problems under an SF environment. The proposed approach was compared with IF-MOORA and was found that the results are more reliable using the proposed method, also the ranking in the MOORA method was compared with the TOPSIS method in terms of degree of correlation.

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  1. Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Urmia University of Technology, 57166, Urmia, Iran

    Saeid Jafarzadeh Ghoushchi & Shabnam Rahnamay Bonab

  2. Industrial Engineering Department, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, 15875-1774, Tehran, Iran

    Ali Memarpour Ghiaci

  3. Department of Telecommunications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

    Ramin Ranjbarzadeh

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Saeid Jafarzadeh Ghoushchi: conceptualization, investigation, validation, writing—reviewing, and editing. Ali Memarpour Ghiaci: conceptualization, investigation, and methodology. Shabnam Rahnamay Bonab: formal analysis, investigation, and validation. Ramin Ranjbarzadeh: conceptualization, writing—reviewing and editing, and validation. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Table 12 The decision matric in form of SFSs
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Table 13 The weights of the criteria in the form of linguistic terms
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Jafarzadeh Ghoushchi, S., Memarpour Ghiaci, A., Rahnamay Bonab, S. et al. Barriers to circular economy implementation in designing of sustainable medical waste management systems using a new extended decision-making and FMEA models. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 79735–79753 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19018-z

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