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Poppelaars, F.A. (author)
E-waste, price volatility of resources and the constant increase of the middle class world population expecting the same ‘high quality’ life standards have (amongst other) made some companies consider their options. In the reports of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, one aspect of the circular economy model aims at decoupling sales revenues from...
master thesis 2014
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Van den Berg, M.R. (author)
In general the majority of the current economy is a linear economy based on a ‘take-make-dispose” model that relies on easily accessible resources and energy. This creates huge amounts of waste at end of life impacting nature and society. Furthermore resource scarcity is increasingly becoming an issue impacting price and availability of products...
master thesis 2014
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Van de Bospoort, L. (author)
Royal Auping Royal Auping is a Dutch manufacturer of boxsprings, beds and mattresses since 1888. Both development and production takes places in Deventer, The Netherlands. Their ambition is to be fully Cradle to Cradle in 2020. With the Auping Essential they introduced the first Cradle to Cradle certificated bed in the world. This label...
master thesis 2014
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Güvendik, M. (author)
The lack of literature on using life cycle assessment (LCA) for increasing environmental performance raises the need for concepts or eco-design tools to be combined with LCA to answer the question of how to strategize and take actions based on LCA results. This study intends to address this need by using mobile phones as a case study and...
master thesis 2014
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Holtman, R.D. (author)
WakaWaka develops and markets solar powered lights and chargers for the western world and developing countries in their mission to end energy poverty. The circular economy is an economic system with closed material loops, which can provide benefits for sustainable product design and business model generation. Circular tools have been designed...
master thesis 2014
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Kwakernaak, M.G. (author)
master thesis 2014
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Shahbazi, K. (author)
This thesis explores a human-centered approach to innovating towards the circular economy, using the design concept of product-service-economic systems (PSES)
master thesis 2015
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Jochemsen, K.S.R. (author)
This graduation project was set out to explore how service design could be applied to the circular economy. The report outlines a framework for applying the process to projects on circular system transitions. A case study was conducted on designing a service for Fairphone, in which the framework was applied. Fairphone has been a leading example...
master thesis 2015
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Pydo, K. (author)
The master thesis treats the possibilities of applying circular economy principles into specific conditions of post-soviet city: Nowa Huta. The city faces complex problems of negative demographics, loss of heavy industry and socio-economic regress. The project proposes several strategies that focuses on dealing with problems internally, without...
master thesis 2015
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De Grauw, D.N. (author)
Achieving a sustainable society is one of the biggest challenges our world is facing. For decades new theories of sustainability have passed. At this moment the Circular Economy is one of the most promising theories, because it adds the aspect of an economy. Still, a lot of gaps can be found in the knowledge regarding the Circular Economy. This...
master thesis 2015
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Wout, P.A.W. (author)
CONTEXT Today’s overconsumption of clothes harms the environment and the people involved in the production. Although (clothing) consumption plays an essential role in society and therefore could not be eliminated, an improvement could be made by: Preventing people from buying items they will not wear. Preventing the industry from producing...
master thesis 2015
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Schuit, C.S.C. (author)
Without the guarantee for product return or company ownership, circular alternatives can have a higher perceived financial risk than linear alternatives. Therefore, it is essential to start at the business model to create preconditions for a circular system and develop propositions consumers are willing to pay for. This requires a shift in...
master thesis 2015
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Bellstedt, C.H. (author)
Massive material flows that are mostly originating from the lithosphere are entering the cities, adding to and shaping the stock of the built environment. Due to concerns with material resource scarcity and the finiteness of virgin materials, resources will have to be measured and tracked. As a result of insufficient data on (average) civil...
master thesis 2015
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De Jong, W. (author)
Previous studies showed that the consumer acceptance of refurbished products is not optimal. This experimental quantitative study investigates three potential ways to influence the consumer acceptance, being the existence of wear and tear on the product, providing additional information about the previous use or providing additional information...
master thesis 2015
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Feijen, A.C. (author)
The Master’s programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. In order to enable service providers to support businesses in adopting Circular economy as new paradigm, backcasting is suggested as suitable method. By 1. selecting appropriate tools to complete the five phases of backcasting,...
master thesis 2015
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Jockin, B.G.W. (author)
This research aims to uncover the factors influencing the customer acceptance of refurbished products. To gain insight in these factors, a quantitative study (N = 250) on the response of customers to the proposition of refurbished smartphones was conducted in cooperation with Fairphone. Fairphone is a social enterprise start-up, aiming to open...
master thesis 2015
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Crock, W.D. (author)
The Master's programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. Neodymium applications, especially the neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) permanent magnet, have substantially enabled continuous miniaturization in the electronics sector and have become increasingly vital to electric mobility and...
master thesis 2016
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Stigter, R. (author)
The circular economy concept is gaining popularity. Especially in the recent years a lot has been written about the benefits and challenges of the topic. Despite the growing interest on both political and market level, the terminology is used diffused and incoherent. This research examines the circular economy concept as posed by the Ellen...
master thesis 2016
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Shyam, S. (author)
Mobile phones are undoubtedly an important part of our daily lives and activities. With the avid use and rapid upgrade patterns of mobile phones in current consumer lifestyle comes a wasteful disposal process. The high speed at which mobile phones are left for obsolescent makes the electronic waste problem that they bring with them a target of...
master thesis 2016
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Dzjind, T. (author)
Just in the last decade alone, over 300 Million Game Consoles have been sold globally. When all stacked up, the height is three times the distance to the moon. With even shorter lifecycles forecasted due to technological advancements (i.e. Virtual Reality), the pace in which consoles become obsolete will increase dramatically in the near future....
master thesis 2016
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