The systematic avoidance of non-degradable waste in the circular economy is already one of the most relevant trends in global industries. In addition, efforts are being made to obtain new resources from old waste and thus develop materials in performance dimensions other than the traditional ones.



Design for circularity
The circular economy extends the service life of goods through reuse, repair, recycling and technological and design-oriented upgrading. At the end of their life cycle, all products are broken down into their individual parts. These parts can then either be directly reused or are broken down again to separate the materials they contain. This gives rise to a closed material cycle and it is no longer necessary to extract new materials. And this applies to all materials, not just to finite, rare or exhaustible ones. Design for circularity is a condition for enabling disassembly at the end of the product life cycle.

Data-based circular economy
Sorting materials into clean parts involves a great deal of work and data. Both waste sorting and identifying material parts are enabled by various data-based AI applications, such as image recognition technology and robotics.

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