Our current take-make-dispose economic model faces a vital challenge as it extracts resources from the natural environment at faster rates than that the natural environment can replenish. A circular economy where businesses lower their negative impact on the natural environment by transitioning towards …

We aim to understand the interaction between shifting organizational field logics and field actors’ responses to reconcile logic plurality and maintain legitimacy through business model innovation. Drawing on a multimethod, longitudinal field study in the fashion industry, we traced how de novo and incumbent …

Management of fashion (related) companies need to become convinced that circularity delivers positive financial results and incentives. This research aims to provide the first information requirement insights needed to enable the transition to a circular fashion industry. Due to easy access and abundant information …

The following research justification report shows to which extent adding HemCell prebiotics to the current product line is financially feasible. Before coming up with a calculation model, some more background research needed to be done. Four information gaps were identified on which this research is …

In dit onderzoek wordt onderzocht wat de invloed is van losmaakbaar bouwen op de geluidwering en de luchtgeluidsisolatie. Deerns, het ingenieursbureau waarbij het afstudeeronderzoek gedaan is, heeft aangegeven meer informatie te willen vergaren over losmaakbaarheid en de gevolgen ervan op geluid. Door …

Circularity and recycling are gaining increased attention, yet the amount of recycled plastic applied in new products remains low. To accelerate uptake by businesses, it will be useful to empirically investigate the main barriers and enablers that organisations experience when using recycled plastic …

Wetenschappelijk artikel gepubliceerd met betrekking tot ' rotocraft access panel from recycled carbon PPS 'A rotorcraft access panel is developed and was successfully flight tested. Utilizing a novel recycling route, the panel is lighter, more cost-effective and of recycled thermoplastic composites.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.repl.2020.08.003 (First …

The Dutch government and leading academics in the field of circular economy propose that “repurposing”, i.e., finding new usages for discarded material, is important to reduce resource usage. Waste collectors, municipalities and start-ups increasingly find ways to develop circular business models, aiming …

Circular Economy 2050

Currently, the amount of post-consumer textile waste is growing. Unfortunately, the European recycling infrastructure is lacking, preventing efficient recycling operations. It is still difficult to set up production lines of high-quality products with shredded textile waste fibres, yet the demand for …