Waste to design (W2D)
Research Project, 2012
– 2015
This project, financed by the Mistra Closing the Loop initiative, brings together experts from Stena Recycling, Semcon and Chalmers to support bachelor and masters students while they do their theses on product development using industrial waste fractions without current commercial value as a starting point, which normally end their lifespan in incineration or landfill. The possibility of proposing new product development with materials from the waste streams, opens interesting new design and business opportunities, at the same time setting examples of resource recovery.
Participants
Ulrike Rahe (contact)
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Design and Human Factors
Isabel Ordonez Pizarro
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Design and Human Factors
Teodora Retegan Vollmer
Chalmers, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Energy and Material
Oskar Rexfelt
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Design and Human Factors
Erik Stenvall
Polymeric Materials and Composites
Sandra Tostar
Chalmers, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Energy and Material
Collaborations
Semcon
Göteborg, Sweden
Stena Recycling AB
Göteborg, Sweden
Funding
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra)
Project ID: FOR2011/13nr17
Funding Chalmers participation during 2012–2015
Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure
Sustainable development
Driving Forces
Building Futures (2010-2018)
Areas of Advance
Production
Areas of Advance
Energy
Areas of Advance