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bmra-5396	Chaban, Katia; Tucker, Jan	Circular Strategies to Improve Consumer Goods Returns	2023	40	.pdf	application/pdf	16591	748	45	The left side of Figure 1 highlights the study problem that consumer product company leaders have not taken advantage of CE business models to improve the product return process impacting the company’s profitability and the environment (Ader et al., 2021). Consumer product companies in the United States spend $100 billion annually handling returns (Zhang et al., 2021) and contribute negatively to the environment due to waste created by the process, with an estimated 10% of all returns going to landfills (Ader et al., 2021).	cache/bmra-5396.pdf	txt/bmra-5396.txt