Life Cycle Assessment & Circular Economy

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Green Story Inc, Canada, based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 150 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

• Chapter 1.  Technological innovations promoting Circular Economy: A tool to close resource loops.- Chapter 2. Prospects of Circularity in Steel Industry: Mapping through LCA approach.- Chapter 3. Circular economy as a way forward against material criticality: the case of Rare earth elements in the context of sustainable development.- Chapter 4. Building a Sustainable Future: A Circular Economy-Based Leasing Model for Affordable Housing in Malaysia Evaluated by Life Cycle Assessment.- Chapter 5. ALTERNATIVES TO IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PLASTICS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY.- Chapter 6. Application of green technology for the management of figs’ deseasonalization: an economically and environmentally effective tool.