Annual meeting with users of the Circular Circuits project took place on 14th March 2025
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Master thesis relating to CC In2Waste Solutions In2Waste Solutions and WP5 collaborated on a master’s thesis internship project. From January to June this year, student Amy van Baalen worked with In2Waste to investigate the circular business model for reusing legacy PCB components in the WEEE recycling industry. She identified key enablers and challenges, such as technological advancements
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Aviation struggles with waste mountains: from meals to headphones Worldwide, air traffic has risen substantially and the number of passenger sum up to around 5 billion a year. Not only does this lead to a considerable emissions, but also to an enormous mountain of waste created by meals, pillows and headphones. Nils Pauliks spoke on
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Progress meeting with users of the Circular Circuits project took place on 27th September 2024 Rapidly developing project has its online Progress meeting on 27th September this year. Around 40 participants took part in evaluations of new results. Insightful presentations were given by researchers from Universities of Leiden, TU Delft, Radboud, Eindhoven, Erasmus University Rotterdam,
The Financieel Dagblad wrote a nice piece on the value of inter- and transdisciplinary research (i.e. between disciplines and with actors working in the practice that is subject of research). Circular Circuits was shown as a prominent example of this approach. The article is behind a paywall, and can be read here. A download of the
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Two of our Circular Circuits PhD students have had the opportunity to present a paper at the 2024 Electronics Goes Green conference in Berlin. This conference took place from 18-20 June 2024. The conference provided a platform for researchers, policy makers and industry players, all dedicated towards driving sustainability in the electronics and ICT sector.
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During the seminar ‘Critical Raw Materials in a Circular World’ at the Delft University of Technology’s Materials Week, Jasper Coppen, Joep van de Ven and IDE’s Dorien van Dolderen discussed how recycling these materials can reduce Europe’s reliance on a few suppliers. They also highlighted the essential role of industry partnerships in driving this transition.
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“I always hand in my broken electronic devices, but is anything actually done with them?” In a time of scarce materials, you would hope so, but recycling these types of products is quite complicated. It is only possible for about 20% of the products worldwide. In the Netherlands, we are doing a lot better, but
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Three of the Circular Circuits PhD students, Dorien van Dolderen, Nils Pauliks and Pablo Ilgemann, published an article on the science communication platform ‘Klimaathelpdesk’. The article focuses on the climate impacts of electronics throughout their entire life cycle. The full article can be found here.
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Annual Consortium Meeting On Thursday 14 March 2024, the Circular Circuits consortium will get together for its annual meeting. The consortium members will share their research results, to align activities between the work packages and to foster collaboration.
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