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Digitalization as enabler of the resource efficient circular economy? May 10, 2019 Henning Wilts Director Circular Economy Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy Circular Economy - How to connect policy, research and business? Milano

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Digitalization as enabler of the resource efficient circular economy? May 10, 2019

Henning Wilts Director Circular Economy Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy

Circular Economy - How to connect policy, research and business?

Milano

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From waste management to circular systems

Source: EEA 2018

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Ja, wir sind Recycling-Weltmeister – nirgendwo wird Abfall besser entsorgt als bei uns Illegale Müllentsorgung ist bei uns kaum ein Problem; direkte Umweltprobleme gelöst
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What do recovery rates actually tell us? Germany: 99,2% for plastic packaging...

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Goal: safe disposal of waste

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Die Radikalität dieses beabsichtigten Wandels wird deutlich, unter welchen Gesichtspunkten abfallwirtschaftliche Infrastrukturen in der Vergangenheit geplant und umgesetzt wurden. Ausgangspunkt der Abfallwirtschaft war die Festellung, dass Städte nur bis zu einer bestimmten Größe wachsen konnten, wenn sie nicht über ein System zur Entsorgung von Abfällen verfügten. Über Jahrtausende hinweg, war die zuverlässige, billige und ab den 1960ern umweltfreundliche Entsorgung von Abfällen zum Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit das primäre Ziel.Selbst die erste Müllverbrennungsanlage in D, errichtet 1896 in HH, wurde nach dem letzten Ausbruch der Cholera errichtet und diente damit nicht der energetischen Verwertung, sondern dem Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit.
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Goal: sustainable use of resources

Source: UNEP 2017

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Reduction of the theoretical raw material requirement by the secondary raw material economy DIERec and DERec in relation to DMI and RMI

Resource protection through circular economy

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RMI without the German secondary raw materials industry (18 % higher)

DMI excluding the German secondary raw materials industry (13 % higher)

Current RMI

Current DMI

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Anteil der direkten und indirekten Effekte der Verwertung (DIRec) am Rohstoffeinsatz (RMI) Anteil der direkten Effekte der Verwertung (DERec) am direkten Materialeinsatz Für den RMI liegen nur Daten bis 2011 vor!
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Barriers in the circular economy

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Increased search and transaction costs

Production

Trade

Distorted consumer

perceptiong

Consumer Recycling and disposal

companies

Technological problems

Secondary raw

materials

Underdeveloped availability of information

Primary raw materials

Inertisation (makes them

harmless)

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Warum führt das Marktsystem nicht zu effizienten Ergebnissen - insbesondere zu deutlich höheren Anteilen an recyceltem Kunststoff? Standard neoklassische Annahme: Jeder Marktteilnehmer ist umfassend informiert, über alles, ohne Kosten..... Wirtschaftliche Maßnahmen und die Nutzung des Marktsystems sind an Transaktionskosten gebunden (Williamson 1985) Die Transaktionskosten umfassen die Kosten, die durch die Organisation und Abwicklung dieses Austauschs entstehen, d.h. Kosten für Informationen, Verhandlungen und Vertragsgestaltung fallen vor Vertragsabschluss an, während Kosten für die Kontrolle, Durchführung und Vertragsanpassung nach Vertragsabschluss anfallen.
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ISWA Study on waste management of the future

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Digitization of the circular economy

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Nichts Ein bisschen Etwas Sehr viel

Knowledge status of the participants about the 4th Industrial Revolution

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Nein Nein, ein bisschen Ja, ein wenig Ja

Will the 4th Industrial Revolution have an impact on waste management and

recycling?

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No no, a tad yes, a little yes

Nothing a tad a little a lot

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„Digital Readiness in Comparison of Environmental Technologies“

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Source: Roland Berger 2017 (Translated)

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Environmentally friendly generation, storage and distribution of energy

Circular economy

Energy efficiency

Water management

Sustainable mobility

Raw material and material efficiency

Digital Readiness Start-up activities

Use of technology

Digital systems

Innovation dynamics

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Sensoring • Real-time data collection and generation • automated market and logistics platforms (“UBER for waste")

Cyber Physical Systems • Information about products throughout the entire production process

Block Chain • Waste data flows without inference to production technology

Internet of Things • Self-marketing of recycled products

Digital transformation offers itself as an ideal precursor of a circular economy Practical considerations

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Definition von Cyper Physical Systems herausfinden
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High reliability

More security: While large banks are vulnerable to hacking attacks, it's almost impossible to hack into

a specific block

Eliminates the ability to cheat

Increased transparency

Eliminates commissions

Increasing the frequency and efficiency of trading transactions

Better access for different population groups and locations

Enables more people and businesses to act

Greater adaptability

Blockchain can be public and open or private with

limited membership

Faster way to complete transactions

Advantages of Blockchain

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The blockchain approach as business model for deposit solutions in densely populated, optimally isolated regions (e.g. tourist island destinations) • Access to separately collected, homogeneous

materials with a positive market value and a collection rate of 80%.

• Cost savings through reduced dispersion • Access to data on the life cycle of products • Dynamic incentive for actual recyclable product

design through individual producer responsibility

Feasibility study in the context of ClimateKIC: Blockchain-based deposit solutions

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Number of identified and analyzed blockchain networks: 14 Geographical coverage: • mainly: global (9) • Rest: transnational/two countries (1), national (3) and regional (1)]. Status: • only 2 are fully functional • Rest: development phase (7), pilot projects under way (4), early operational phase (1)]. Materials considered: • Plastic waste (4), • Various types of waste/old products (including plastics) (8), • Other (2) [Food and its supply chain (1); exchange platform for different types of products

and services (1)].

Characteristics of the analyzed blockchain networks

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Overview of the five types of business ideas

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types of business ideas to Blockchain and (plastic)

waste prevention or recycling

2 Complete life cycle documentation of the products [2] Foodchain || Circularise || Excess Material Exchange

Exchange of surplus Materials and Products + Matchmaking [1] Excess Materials Exchange

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Bonus systems for collectors [9] Recreum || Plastic Bank (IBM) || Agora Tech Lab || Empower || RecycleToCoin || Cycled ||Swachhcoin || Naturecoin || Troventum.bonus system

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Rationalisation and automation the transport of waste [1] Projekt “European waste transportation on blockchain”

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C2B

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Sharing products (private sector) [1] ShareRing

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InterReg Di-Plast 2019-2022

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JADS

Di-Plast aims to increase the use of recycled plastic by providing a more stable supply and quality of recycled material: • Sensors generate data within the supply chains, • Data Analytics provides information about quality and availability, • Value Stream Management improves processes and logistics, • Environmental assessments validate sustainability.

4 pilots enable 12 companies to increase the use of recyclate by 4

Kt. Uptake Manager (UM) enable 90 companies to introduce

technologies, understand the benefits of recycling and achieve an 18Kt increase

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Partner number Project partner organisation Country 8 Luxinnovation GIE LU 9 WiN Emscher-Lippe Gesellschaft zur Strukturverbesserung GmbH DE 10 iba AG DE 11 IK - Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e.V. DE 11 EPPA - European PVC Window Profile and Related Building Products Association BE 12 PlasticsEurope DE 13 HARTING IT Software Development GmbH & Co. KG DE 14 Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) DE 15 Stichting Pioneering NL 16 Pöppelmann GmbH & Co. KG Kunststoffwerk-Werkzeugbau DE 17 Scheplast GmbH DE
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From technology to real benefit

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Digitalization is also not an end in itself!

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Thank you very much for your attention! Dr. Henning Wilts

[email protected]

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