Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials
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How can we ensure the continuous supply of the increasingly scarce raw materials that are needed to make the products we use every day? In this course, we will look at the potential benefits of circular procurement and how recycling technologies and more efficient ways of collecting and recycling critical raw materials (CRMs) can make your business and production more resource resilient.
A good number of the materials found in everyday products are now referred to as "critical". This means that there is a risk of failure in their supply and that they are also critical in terms of economic importance.
Many metals, for instance, are already critical or could become critical in the near future due to their limited availability and the growing demand for products worldwide. Think of the newest electronic products that contain critical metals such as gallium, which is used in integrated circuits; beryllium, used in electronic and telecommunications equipment and permanent magnets and germanium found in infra-red optics.
Innovative product design and reusing, recycling and remanufacturing products can help to deal with a raw materials shortage. But this can only provide an integrated solution if we keep CRMs in the loop through smarter CRM management. The starting point is to identify CRMs in products. It is not always clear what materials are in which products. It is, therefore, necessary to keep all metals in the loop for as long as possible.
Scarcity in the supply chain can not only damage businesses but also negatively impact economic development and the environment. For this reason, the course will also discuss environmental issues and electric and electronic waste regulations.
This course will be of value to a wide range of professionals working in or interested in this field. These include professionals involved in producing products containing CRMs (such as electronics) as well as local or national government officials tasked with organizing waste management and recycling for these products. Students interested in the field of waste management will also find this course helpful for their studies in electronics, industrial design, and industrial ecology.
This course has received funding from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The EIT receives support from the European Union’s Horizon2020 research and innovation program.
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Jan-Henk Welink
Colin Fitzpatrick
Kamila Mascart
Michael Johnson
Maud Rio
Dr. Maud Rio is Associate Professor (PhD 2012), permanent research fellow at Grenoble Alpes University G-SCOP Laboratory. She is part of the Product Process Design Team. Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering in IUT’s Mechanical and Manufacturing Technological School of Grenoble (GMP). Prior to this role, Maud has worked two years as a research fellow at RMIT University’s Centre for Design and Society in Australia. Areas of Expertise:
• Developing models and designing methods based on the approach of integrated design to boost environmental performance of product and processes in line with emerging technologies leading to new forms of consumption and production.
• Eco-design and life cycle assessment (LCA).
• Supervising undergraduate, postgraduate, and master students in related fields, as well as co-supervises PhD students in integrated design.
Florence Betmont
Florence Betmont is Engineer in Environmental Science and Chemical Engineering, University of Grenoble Alpes. Areas of Expertise:
• Life cycle analysis
• Battery recycling process
• ionic liquids and solvents
David Peck
Associate Professor, David Peck, researches and teaches in the field of circular built environment and critical materials, based in the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft. He is a founding member of the Circular Built Environment Hub, which connects to BauHow5 and Ellen MacArthur Foundation networks.
David is also an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London – The Bartlett and an adjunct Professor at MIP Politecnico di Milano, Graduate School of Business. David works with ad hoc committees in the EU, Brussels.
Sophie Sfez
Sophie Sfez (PhD, 2017) has a background in agronomy and environmental science. Sophie worked on European projects such as MEASURE (Metrics for Sustainability Assessment in European Process Industries) and REPAIR (Resource Management in Peri-urban Areas: Going Beyond Urban Metabolism). Areas of Expertise:
• innovation in resource recovery from waste and wastewater streams
• clean technology and air pollution
• organic waste management
