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A circular economy keeps products in use for as long as possible and avoids waste generation, moving from a take-make-dispose model of consumption into a closed reuse loop. Sharing of resources across sectoral boundaries can facilitate the development of the highest value materials and products with the greatest performance and impact potential. This talk details the principles, supporting strategies and guidance of a circular economy, which are common across disciplines and will include a number of examples of circular material and product innovations which take waste and low-value materials from one sector and reuse them in others
Speaker:
Dr. Aimee Byrne
https://www.tcd.ie/
https://www.tcd.ie/e3
A circular economy keeps products in use for as long as possible and avoids waste generation, moving from a take-make-dispose model of consumption into a closed reuse loop. Sharing of resources across sectoral boundaries can facilitate the development of the highest value materials and products with the greatest performance and impact potential. This talk details the principles, supporting strategies and guidance of a circular economy, which are common across disciplines and will include a number of examples of circular material and product innovations which take waste and low-value materials from one sector and reuse them in others
Speaker:
Dr. Aimee Byrne
https://www.tcd.ie/
https://www.tcd.ie/e3
