An important part of organizing the circular economy is re-directing waste materials and products back to places where they can be recycled, remanufactured or reused as secondary resources. Re-directing possibilities already start at the design phase and throughout the life cycle circular performance is influenced by digital strategies. In order to implement waste-to-resource loops, we need a deeper understanding of how products are used, discarded, and re-directed. In this (free) seminar, we will dive deep into digital strategies, awareness of users, facility locations, reverse logistics, and inventory stocks.

Program:

14:45 - 15:00 online reception

15:00 - 15:30 Using Digital Technology Strategies to increase Circular Performance, by Arjen Wierikx, Lecturer and PhD candidate, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences

15:30 - 16:00 Creating circular business models in practice, by dr. Stef Lemmens, Assistant professor, and dr Morteza Pourakbar, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, both from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

16:00 - 16:30 Where are the circular companies? Spatial clustering of secondary resource receives in the Netherlands, by Tanya Tsui, PhD Candidate, Climate Design & Sustainability, Architectural Engineering and Technology, Delft University of Technology

16:30 - 17:00 Awareness of circular possibilities in discarded materials and products in companies, ir Jan-Henk Welink, Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology

Date: Tuesday December 7th 15.00 to 17.00 hours
You will receive a day before an MS Teams meeting link

This seminar has been made possible by the European program EIT Raw Materials.