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A Recent Digitalization in Recycling Industry Attaining Ecological Sustainability: A Comprehensive Outlook and Future Trend

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The management of waste through dual way of recycling (i-e offline and online) is assumed to have a key role in attaining ecological sustainability and enabling circular practices. The research on online recycling is gaining evolution in recent age. Prior literature on the current research theme has failed to provide a comprehensive outlook and future trend. Therefore, the current research intends to elaborate the current research scenario linked with online recycling by critically scrutinizing the prior research over the last 41 years. A comprehensive analysis was conducted using the Scopus database, retrieving a total of 866 articles. These articles were selected to provide a conceptual overview and understanding of the fundamental research conducted in the field. By employing bibliometric analysis this research provides comprehensive detail about evolution, mapping of publications and prominent trends from the year 1981 to 2022 to understand the practices and future trends of online recycling research. The outcomes elucidated that there is exponential increase in research publications relating to online recycling over the last five years. The most influential producer of online recycling research are China, United Kingdom and United States. Chinese Universities has the highest number of publications among all the countries across globe. Moreover, the current research trend is focused on technology based circular economy, industrial ecology, bio-based waste management, dual channel recycling, municipal waste, waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), environmental impact and lifecycle assessment. Hence, the prominent research perspective and highlighted features could offer recommendation for upcoming studies to contribute in literature and help practitioners, policymakers and professionals move towards circular practices.

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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (72250410375) and the Opening Project of Key Laboratory of Higher Education of Sichuan Province for Enterprise Informationalization and Internet of Things (2022WYJ02).

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    Syed Abdul Rehman Khan

  2. School of Management and Engineering, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, China

    Syed Abdul Rehman Khan

  3. Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Development, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia

    Muhammad Umar

  4. School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Xi’an, China

    Zhang Yu

  5. Department of Business Administration, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Muhammad Tanveer Nawaz

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SARK, MU, ZY and MTN: Conceptualization, Methodology Software. MTN and ZY: Data collection, writing-original draft preparation. MU, ZY and MTN: Visualization, Investigation. SARK, ZY and MU: Software, validation. SARK, ZY, and MU: Writing-reviewing and editing.

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Khan, S.A.R., Umar, M., Yu, Z. et al. A Recent Digitalization in Recycling Industry Attaining Ecological Sustainability: A Comprehensive Outlook and Future Trend. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 103760–103775 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-29537-y

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