Global concerns about climate change, resource depletion, and waste generation have led to the recognition that sustainable development models must replace traditional production and consumption systems based on the “take-make-dispose” (Su et al., 2013; Esposito et al., 2020). In this context, the circular economic (CE) model, based on principles of [...]

Emerging technologies have been revolutionizing manufacturing extensively for the past decades. However, remanufacturing and circular activities in companies have not been affected by the Industry 4.0 revolution in an extensive volume (Kristoffersen et al., 2020). Moreover, the industry is slowly abandoning linear systems for circular ones (Guldmann and Huulgaard, 2020). [...]