3. 1. Developments in materials
• Consumption by the BRIC countries
• R.E.E.: Rare Earth Elements
• China: 97% REE: strong competitor
• Dig deeper? Dig cleaner?
• Alarmism and speculations
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4. 1. Developments in materials
• Plastics and oil: Pacific Asia (China and India)
are pulling 4 to 10 times as the West
• Textile: Cotton, land and lots of water
• Building materials: energy
• Materials and energy
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6. 1. Developments in materials
• Materials roundabout, MP Stientje van
Veldhoven
• EU: Resource efficiency and management
• Price fluctuations plastics, textiles and
minerals
• Scientific knowledge necessary
• Milgro is Founding Father
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7. 2. Workshops
• What is going on?
• REE: OK, but plastics, textiles and building
materials?
• Workshops 2011
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8. 2. Workshops
Plastics
• Price plastics fluctuates: shortages and disturbance
supply chain
• Focus on quality regranulate instead of quantity
• More use of regranulate: higher quality plastics
necessary
• Design for Next Use (D4NU)
• Sorting and processing technologies optimising to
keep quality
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9. 2. Workshops
Textiles
• Striving for a higher level of recycling (better
than insulation, panels for cars)
• Re-use of fibre (de-colourisation)
• Separation of cotton and polyester
• Depolymerisation
• Carpetrecycling: size and contaminants
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10. 2. Workshops
Electronics
• Shortages (e.g. powder fluorescent tube)
• Mass percentage recycling not important:
amount of minerals very important
• Design for recycling
• Improve seperation and metallurgical
processes
• Reverse logistics electronics
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12. 3. Knowledge Platform
• Industry lacks information
• At universities information is “on the shelf”
• But: fragmented over a lot of univeristies,
faculties and research groups
• Knowlegde Platform: inter-university
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13. 3. Knowledge Platform
• Cooperation in the production and supply
chain
• Power of knowledge
• Industrial network
• Sponsored by founding father and
membership
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14. 3. Knowledge Platform
• Make knowledge avaialabel en “translate”
• Trendwatching
• Governments
• Cooperation (e.d. Vereniging Afvalbedrijven)
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15. 4. Activities
• Seminars (theme’s)
o Dec. 15th 2011: How do we get our resoucres back?
o Feb. 29th 2012: Design for Sustainable Resource management
o Apr. 26th 2012: New developments in recycling technology
• Masterclasses, networking
• Studentprojects
• Website collection points textiles and electronics
(C#: payed project, 40-50 hours)
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16. 4. Activities
Website collection points textiles and electronics
(C#: paid project, 40-50 hours)
• Programming job
• Make a website module; for dotnetnuke (implementation google
maps) programmed in C#
• Make an app for iPhone & Android
• About 40 - 50 uur, more hours possible.
• Good payment
• Visit location Spaanse Polder Rotterdam. Good accesability by public
transport
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17. 5. Sitting duck?
Is the industry a sitting duck?
• A large part of the industry is not worried
• Awareness is low: complex matter
• Companies that worry: price fluctuations
• Speculators and alarmism?
• “Peak-oil” effect? (running out of resources)
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18. 5. Sitting duck?
Is the industry a sitting duck?
• Not worried: Should they be?
• Is there a “peak-oil” effect?
• How to raise awareness without alarmism?
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19. 5. Sitting duck?
What can or should the industry do?
• Knowledge platform: recycling and substitution?
• Resource efficiency?
• Price stabilisation?
• Responsible mining?
• Redesign?
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20. 6. 11 Projects
We have 11 student projects
1. CO2 storage in a building?
2. More wood as CO2 buffer
3. How would look the ideal coffee cup look like?
4. Packaging and prevention of food wastage
5. Does energy pricing conflicts with recycling and mining?
6. What are the options to replace critical metals?
7. How does the cycle of Tin look like?
8. How does the cycle of Neodymium look like?
9. How does the cycle of Yttrium and Europium (TL-tubes) look like?
10. Map the most interesting DUTCH companies, uni’s and NGO’s?
11. What are new business modeslfor better resource efficiency?
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21. 6. Project 1
CO2 storage in a building?
Increase Wood Cycle = CO2 buffer
More wood in buildings (how?)
Calculate potential and sustainable impacts
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22. 6. Project 2
More wood as CO2 buffer
Same as 1)
How many products to be replaced by wood, and other
biomass
What are feasable options
Calculate potential and sustainable impacts
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23. 6. Project 3
How would look the ideal coffee cup look like?
Many options (mug, disposable paper, plastic)
Many Plastics (PLA, PE etc.)
Many cycles (washing, recycling, logistics)
Compare
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24. 6. Project 4
Packaging and prevention of food wastage
Fruit & vegatable packed in plastic
Plastic discarded: spillage
Fruit & vegetable discarded: spillage
Comparison
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25. 6. Project 5
Does energy pricing conflicts with recycling and
mining?
High energy price: mining expensive, more recycling?
Low energy price: mining cheap, less recycling?
Compare
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26. 6. Project 6
We have 9 projects
What are the options to replace critical metals?
Should we care?
Indium TinOxide: ITO vs. OLED
Neodymium: magnets wind turbines vs. other solutions
Solar power: germanium vs. other solutions and
developments
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27. 6. Project 7, 8 & 9
How does the cycle of:
7) Tin 8) Neodymium 9) Yttrium and Europium
look like?
• Import
• Collection
• Recycling and quality
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28. 6. Project 10
Map the most interesting DUTCH companies, uni’s
and NGO’s on:
Recycling
Design for recycling
Substitution
New business models.
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29. 6. Project 11
What are new business modeslfor better resource
efficiency?
Sell?
Lease?
Rent?
For which products?
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