Projekt

The transfer from the linear to a sustainable circular economy model is associated with various challenges for the plastics industry. The selection of an appropriate recycling process like mechanical, solvent-based or chemical recycling and the optimization of the process parameters for a given product are non-trivial. It requires extensive knowledge and understanding of the effectiveness, limitations, efficiency and especially sustainability of the individual processes along the life cycle, i.e. resources, production, (re)use, recycling. Further, a lot of plastic products were designed for the linear economy and are not suitable for recycling. Therefore, the evaluation of different recycling processes should be considered together with a new 'Design for Recycling'. In the scope of the project, complex components, for which currently there is no recycling solution like e.g., underbody, engine compartment components (coextruded fuel pipes), interior parts (center armrest) and/or mixed shredder light fraction recycled from waste streams with a complex composition (composites, material combinations, biobased materials) will be used as an example for such practical system thinking.

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Josef Endres

  Universität Hannover
  Fakultät Maschinenbau
  Institut für Kunststoff- und Kreislauftechnik
  Garbsen
  

• Prof. Dr. Klaus Kümmerer

  Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
  Fakultät Nachhaltigkeit
  Institut für Nachhaltige Chemie und Umweltchemie
  Lüneburg