Design for and from Recycling: A Circular Ecodesign Approach to Improve the Circular Economy
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Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, I2M Bordeaux, F-33400 Talence Cedex, France
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Arts et Métiers, Institut de Chambéry, F-73375 Le Bourget-du-Lac, France
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Arts et Metiers, CNRS, I2M Bordeaux, F-33405 Talence Cedex, France
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Sustainability 2020, 12(23), 9861; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12239861
Received: 31 October 2020 / Revised: 17 November 2020 / Accepted: 21 November 2020 / Published: 25 November 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Product Eco-Design in the Era of Circular Economy)
In the context of a circular economy, one can observe that (i) recycling chains are not adapted enough to the end-of-life products they have to process and that (ii) products are not sufficiently well designed either to integrate at best their target recycling chain. Therefore, a synergy between product designers and recycling-chains stakeholders is lacking, mainly due to their weak communication and the time-lag between the product design phase and its end-of-life treatment. Many Design for Recycling approaches coexist in the literature. However, to fully develop a circular economy, Design from Recycling also has to be taken into account. Thus Re-Cycling, a complete circular design approach, is proposed. First, a design for recycling methodology linking recyclability assessment to product design guidelines is proposed. Then, a design from recycling methodology is developed to assess the convenience of using secondary raw materials in the design phase. The recyclability of a smartphone and the convenience of using recycled materials in a new cycle are both analyzed to demonstrate our proposal. The Fairphone 2® and its treatment by the WEEE French takeback scheme are used as a case study.
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Martínez Leal, J.; Pompidou, S.; Charbuillet, C.; Perry, N. Design for and from Recycling: A Circular Ecodesign Approach to Improve the Circular Economy. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9861. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12239861
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Martínez Leal J, Pompidou S, Charbuillet C, Perry N. Design for and from Recycling: A Circular Ecodesign Approach to Improve the Circular Economy. Sustainability. 2020; 12(23):9861. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12239861
Chicago/Turabian StyleMartínez Leal, Jorge, Stéphane Pompidou, Carole Charbuillet, and Nicolas Perry. 2020. "Design for and from Recycling: A Circular Ecodesign Approach to Improve the Circular Economy" Sustainability 12, no. 23: 9861. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12239861
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