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

More information

Project Web Page

http://www.wastetodesign.se/

Project Web Page at Chalmers

http://www.chalmers.se/en/projects/Pages/w...

Latest update

3/27/2020