Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE), and ICT equipment in particular, is the fastest growing consumer goods sector worldwide.Unsurprisingly, the corresponding E-waste stream also presents the fastest growing waste stream in the world. But there is both value and challenge in this stream. The precious metals…
Today the Circular Economy is a hot topic. But what is it exactly? And, where do you start with it? Companies, governments, schools & universities and other organizations all talk about the subject and even wrestle with it. National governments (e.g. the Dutch and Scottish)…
Recover-E® Program breakthrough project at international circular economy event The Recover-E® Program will be recognised as one of the breakthrough projects at the Circular Economy BOOSTcamp 2014 – a world leading forum for internationally respected circular economy experts. The Circular Economy BOOSTcamp is…
What we get, what we add, what we forget This is the main problem in current linear economy, according to Jan-Paul Kimmel, one of the founding fathers of Recover-E® Program. People buy stuff (what we get), make use of it in daily work and…
Op 10-10-2013 viert ook Royal HaskoningDHV de Dag van de Duurzaamheid. We laten dan zien hoe we in ons dagelijks werk bezig zijn met het verduurzamen van de wereld. Het zwaartepunt van onze activiteiten op 10-10 ligt in Nijmegen. Daar zijn we gastheer van het…
Today we made an important step in our Recover-E® initiative: we established the foundation Recover-E! One of the principles of Recover-E® is transparency in the way of working and in the reporting. The foundation aims for the initiating and facilitating of a circular economy for…
This week we received the message that Recover-E® is granted with a subsidy for the project “Circular economy for ICT hardware”. For the implementation of Recover-E® we submitted a project plan together with our partners Resteel BV and TU Delft under the grant scheme ‘clusters…