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Amenta, L. (author), Qu, L. (author)This paper aims to demonstrate how ‘research by design,’ which is an approach bridging research, design, and planning, can help unpack the complexity of today’s metropolitan challenges by considering the resource flows and processes that were omitted by traditional ways of planning. This is crucial for circular developments. By reporting the...journal article 2020
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Kehrein, P.A. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Osseweijer, P. (author), Posada Duque, J.A. (author), Dewulf, Jo (author)This paper guides decision making in more sustainable urban water management practices that feed into a circular economy by presenting a novel framework for conceptually designing and strategically planning wastewater treatment processes from a resource recovery perspective. Municipal wastewater cannot any longer be perceived as waste stream...journal article 2020
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Poppelaars, F.A. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author), van Engelen, J.M.L. (author)For the transition toward a circular economy, it is essential that products are returned for reuse, refurbishing or recycling. In order to address the lack of literature on the topic from a user perspective, this paper explores how users can be stimulated to return used smartphones. Taking a Research through Design approach, we developed a...journal article 2020
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Tunn, V.S.C. (author), van den Hende, E.A. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author)Access-based product-service systems (AB-PSS) allow consumers to use products for a fee and might support the transition towards a circular economy. This type of business model could decrease negative impacts of consumption by reducing the number of products needed; either by extending products’ lifetimes or by intensifying the use of...journal article 2020
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Konietzko, J.C. (author), Baldassarre, B.R. (author), Brown, P.D. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Hultink, H.J. (author)Circular business model experiments may help firms transition towards a circular economy. Little is known about how the participants of experimentation – entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, innovation managers – develop and test their assumptions during the experimentation process to achieve more circular outcomes. Using a design-science approach,...journal article 2020
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Haezendonck, Elvira (author), Van den Berghe, K.B.J. (author)Large seaport hubs in Northwestern Europe are aiming to develop as circular hotspots and are striving to become first movers in the circular economy (CE) transition. In order to facilitate their transition, it is therefore relevant to unravel potential patterns of the circular transition that ports are currently undertaking. In this paper, we...journal article 2020
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Sauerwein, M. (author), Zlopasa, J. (author), Doubrovski, E.L. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author), Balkenende, R. (author)The circular economy requires high-value material recovery to enable multiple product lifecycles. This implies the need for additive manufacturing to focus on the development and use of low-impact materials that, after product use, can be reconstituted to their original properties in terms of printability and functionality. We therefore...journal article 2020
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van Dam, Kirsten (author), Simeone, Luca (author), Keskin, Duygu (author), Baldassarre, B.R. (author), Niero, Monia (author), Morelli, Nicola (author)In the past decades, industrial design practice and research have focused extensively on how to optimize production and consumption, as a way to prevent negative environmental impacts, such as resource depletion, pollution, and excessive waste. Recently, the “circular economy” concept is increasingly used to achieve environmental benefits and...journal article 2020
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Tunn, V.S.C. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), van den Hende, E.A. (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author)Combining sustainable consumption with the circular economy concept could help tackle challenges, such as resource scarcity and climate change by reducing resource throughput and increasing cycling of products and materials within the economic system, thereby reducing emissions and virgin material use. To achieve sustainable consumption in a...journal article 2019
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Sauerwein, M. (author), Doubrovski, E.L. (author), Balkenende, R. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author)Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is acknowledged for its potential to support sustainable design. In this paper, we explore whether the opportunities that additive manufacturing offers for sustainable design are also useful when designing for a circular economy, and to what extent additive manufacturing can support design...journal article 2019
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Kozma, András (author), Odenbreit, Christoph (author), Braun, Matthias (author), Veljkovic, M. (author), Nijgh, M.P. (author)Circular Economy refers to a move from linear business models, in which products are manufactured from raw materials, used and then discarded, to circular business models where products or parts are re-used, remanufactured or recycled. Structural steel is highly compatible with this concept; however, when steel-concrete composite structures are...journal article 2019
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Delikonstantis, Evangelos (author), Sturm, G.S.J. (author), Stankiewicz, A.I. (author), Bosmans, Anouk (author), Scapinello, Marco (author), Dreiser, Christian (author), Lade, Oliver (author), Brand, Stefan (author), Stefanidis, G. (author)In this work, we report on air/N<sub>2</sub> gasification of a byproduct stream from an industrial fermenter in a tubular microwave plasma reactor to investigate the feasibility of the technology for organic compounds valorization, given the limited number of relevant works in the literature. In this context, an operating window regarding air...journal article 2019
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Schraven, D.F.J. (author), Bukvić, Uroš (author), Di Maio, F. (author), Hertogh, M.J.C.M. (author)Recent literature has recognized the difficulty of implementing Circular Economy (CE) in supply chains. This has not yet led to a clear understanding of the reasons. This is critical to address, because the difficulty stalls the CE transition and suspends its benefits. Therefore, this paper investigates the reasons for the difficulty of...journal article 2019
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Amenta, L. (author), Attademo, Anna (author), Remøy, H.T. (author), Berruti, Gilda (author), Cerreta, Maria (author), Formato, Enrico (author), Palestino, Maria Federica (author), Russo, Michelangelo (author)Resource consumption and related waste production are still rapidly increasing all over the world, leading to social and environmental challenges and to the production of the so-called ‘wastescapes’. Peri-urban areas—in-between urban and rural territories—are particularly vulnerable and prone to develop into wastescapes because they are...journal article 2019
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Türkeli, Serdar (author), Schophuizen, M.J.F. (author)In this article, we highlight the pressing need for integrating the windows of opportunities that digital transformation of education opens up with circular economy education to accelerate the achievements of sustainability outcomes. Circular economy transition, as a multi-scalar process, relates to several contexts, e.g., product, firm,...journal article 2019
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Van den Berghe, K.B.J. (author), Vos, Martijn (author)The hypothesis of this paper is that the circular economy (CE) has the potential to (re)balance the conflict within urban spatial planning between ‘place as a location’ and the ‘organization of space’. The former dominates the latter following a shift from a Fordist towards a finance and real-estate driven regime. A consequence is that existing...journal article 2019
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Arciniegas Lopez, G.A. (author), Sileryte, R. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Wandl, Alex (author), Dukai, B. (author), Bohnet, P.M.M. (author), Gutsche, Jens-Martin (author)Improving waste and resource management entails working on interrelations between different material flows, territories and groups of actors. This calls for new decision support tools for translating the complex information on flows into accessible knowledge usable by stakeholders in the spatial planning process. This article describes an open...journal article 2019
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Wandl, Alex (author), Balz, Verena Elisabeth (author), Qu, L. (author), Furlan, C. (author), Arciniegas Lopez, G.A. (author), Hackauf, U.D. (author)The concept of circular economy (CE) is high on the agenda of many planning agencies in European countries. It has also become a prominent issue in European academic education institutions. It is expected that spatial planning and design can support and add the spatial quality dimension of such a transition towards CE. However, incorporating the...journal article 2019
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Ingemarsdotter, E.K. (author), Jamsin, E. (author), Kortuem, G.W. (author), Balkenende, R. (author)This paper focuses on how the Internet of Things (IoT) could contribute to the transition to a circular economy (CE), through supporting circular business model and design strategies. While literature has highlighted the opportunities for IoT to support circular strategies in business, little has been published about actual implementations in...journal article 2019
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Ploeger, H.D. (author), Prins, M. (author), Straub, A. (author), Van den Brink, Robert (author)Purpose: A paradigm in circular economy (CE) is that suppliers retain ownership of their products and materials, and that the users “only” pay for services. In many legal systems, however, elements incorporated in a building are considered to be fixtures, and therefore legally part of the building. This means that ensuring multi-cyclic...journal article 2019