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Making digital technologies drivers for circular changeWorld Resources Forum: Closing Loops – Transitions at Work

25 February 2019 – Global session

Chairman: Karl Vrancken (VITO –Uantwerpen)

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Session Outline12:00 introduction by session Chair

12:05 keynote presentation:

Making digital technologies drivers for circular change - Wayne Visser (Antwerp Management School)

12:20 introducing 2 projects:

When digital meets circular: a framework for companies to implement data driven circular solutions - Helen Versluys (Agoria)

Policy options to unleash the opportunities for the European industry in the Circular Economy - Mirari Zaldua (Tecnalia)

12:45 Example cases of digital applications in material management practice

Recupel: How AI in recycling is to drive augmented circularity - Peter Sabbe (Recupel)

Tracimat: High quality recycling in a circular building economy- Marc Dillen (VCB)

13:00 end of session

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Drivers for circular change

Industry 4.0 provides the technological driver for

circular innovation

while Circular Economy is a driver for envisioning the

industrial framework in 2030

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Making digital technologies drivers for circular changeWorld Resources Forum: Closing Loops – Transitions at Work

25 February 2019

Prof. Dr Wayne Visser

Antwerp Management School

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A Systems View on Sustainability

BREAKDOWN

A Key Element of Integrated Value

Integrated Value is the value to society

resulting from innovation synergies

between smart, shared, sustainable, satisfying and secure

solutions to our global system challenges

BREAKTHROUGH

Insights from Dutch Awearness

CCMS: Circular Content Management System

The appropriateness of hi-tech digitization

The complexity of data chains (26 per product)

The reluctance partners to share data #WRF19

Insights from Caterpillar

The Internet of Things (IoT) and circularity

Tool for preventative repair/re-manufacturing

Saves the customer 20%-60% compared to new

Extends the life of products by changing use behavior #WRF19

Insights from Provenance

Blockchain transparency in the value chain

Link to customer choice & branding

Economic/social (non-environmental) benefits

Beware the Hype Cycle for Blockchain #WRF19

Insights from Recycle-to-Coin

Blockchain enabled crowdsourced recycling

Recycle-to-coin is consumer/business interface

Linked to Global Plastic Neutral Scheme > recycling of 90% of all plastic #WRF19

Insights from Google

Artificial Intelligence

Tackling food waste: $127bn p.a. in 2030

Consumer electronics savings: $90bn p.a. by 2030

ZenRobotics 98% accurate in sorting mixed waste streams #WRF19

5 Digital Circular Economy Lessons

Lesson 1: Data/tech does not solve the challenge of collaboration & transparency

Lesson 2: Digital CE can create integrated value by delivering eco + socio-economic value

Lesson 3: Aim for appropriate-tech rather than high-tech; smarter isn’t always smarter

Lesson 4: Digital CE brings opportunities for crowd-driven actions

Lesson 5: Bringing the benefits of transparency to the consumer has brand benefits #WRF19

Thank you for your attention.

Prof. Dr Wayne Visser

Sustainable Transformation Lab.

Antwerp Management School

Boogkeers 5, Antwerp 2000

Wayne.visser@ams.ac.be

www.antwerpmanagementschool.be

Chair in Sustainable Transformation

Supported by BASF, Port of Antwerp and Randstad Belgium

When digital meets circularA framework for companies to implement data driven circular solutions

Helen Versluys, Möbius

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Design for repair: removable driver

Sensors & connectivity

Lighting-as-a-service

Where to find the necessary

data?

How to turn the data into useful

insights?

Which information do I need to support

my circular strategy?

Which information do I need to support my

circular strategy?

Composition

Condition & Use

Location

Availability

Where to find the necessary data?

Contextual

data

Data from

a smart product

after read-out

Data from a

connected product

in real time

Data from a

system of

connected

products

Complex -auto-mated

Simple -manual

Materials, Products, Information

I’ve got the data. How do I turn it into insights?

Raw data collection

Data transfer & storage

Data analysisData

visualization & activation

©IBM

USE RECOVERYDESIGN

Optimized design

Data for remanufacturing

Customized advice on correct use

Predictive maintenance

Recycling instructions

In order to be able to apply the Machine-as-a-Service model properly, we need to have

completely mastered condition-based monitoring. After all, the equipment will

remain on our balance sheet and at the end of the term of the contract we will take it back.

Wouter Ceulemans, President Airtec Division at Atlas Copco Airpower

Tips to get started

Smart product & production system

Information systems

Organizational structure & processes

Culture & workforce competences

DIGITAL HARMONY

Best practices in digital transformation suggest that investments in process

improvements, training and reorganisation, must exceed the investment in ICT by a ratio

of 4 or 5 to 1.

• What you need to know about your product:• What’s in it?, in which condition is it?, where is it?,

is it available?

• Be selective about the data you collect for analysis.

• Data sources:

• Don’t underestimate what you can do with contextual data from conventional products,

• but adding smartness and connectivity helps.

• Don’t DIY!

• Digital harmony is what you’re looking for.

• Find the right balance between investments in ICT on the one hand, and training, reorganisation, etc. on the other hand

Pioneer in the circular economy since 2000

2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014 2015-2018

European WEEEdirective

European directivebroadens to several

key collection streams

Focus on ↑ collection targets

and best practice sharing

Market shifts fromcost to profit, to individual value

chains circularization andecosystem collaboration

Our geographical

scope

OurCustomers

Our role andcapabilities

Reverse logistics and, -network, -manufacturing expert

Reverse process redesign, digital alignment

Circular business modelling, impact analysis

Circular product/service design

Thank you for your attention!

Helen Versluys

helen.versluys@mobius.eu

Policy options to unleash the opportunities for the European industry in the Circular Econmy

Mirari Zaldua, TECNALIA, POINT-Policies for Innovation and Technology

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Contents

CE and the future of EU industry

Enabling policies▪ Working method▪ Challenges ahead▪ Policy recommendations

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CE and the future of EU industry

- European Industry - backbone of the Europeaneconomy

- Overcoming the de-industrialisation process:

- 4th industrial revolution to grow strong againand global leader

- But challenges and uncertainties remain:increasing nationalism and protectionism incompetitor countries, high investments fromnew international players

- Environmental challenges – CE opportunity

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CE and the future of EU industry

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CE is a driver forenvisioning theindustrialframework in 2030

CE and the future of EU industry

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PRODUCING AND CONSUMING RESPONSIBLY

“The European industry is prepared to respond to the needs of citizens that consume responsibly. Its competitiveness and innovation is built upon complex global value network management and business models based

on Circular Economy principles, as well as on the opportunities that industrial digital transformation and the convergence of novel

technologies offer. European industry contributes to fair value creation, relies on a highly-skilled workforce and its sustainable, resource-efficient

production model is a worldwide reference”

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 researchand innovation programme under grant agreement No 723633.

CE and the future of EU industry

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“European manufacturing in 2030 will be a globally competitive, interconnected and adaptive sociotechnical

value creation system that ensures sustainable growth and social welfare, in a resource-constrained world”

…Europe will be at the forefront in resource efficiency and circular economy implementation, which will contribute to its competitiveness at

global level and support its environmental sustainability.

ManuFUTURE High Level Vision and Strategy for 2030

CE – and the future of EU industry

When it comes to industry and manufacturing,EC is about:

- Reduce, reuse and recycle consumer anddurable goods

- Longer lifetime for products

- CE strategies embedded directly inproduction processes

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CE – and the future of EU industry

But…- EU green technology lead to green innovations outside the EU

market

- Limited awareness among companies of economic opportunities:Legal imposition vs. source of economic opportunities /foundation of their business models

- Sustainable lifestyle: Seen as too complex and mismatch withdeep-seated behaviour patterns

- Many triggering factors - The way environmental aspects havebeen taken on board by policy-making

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We MUST RETHINK the mechanisms in place to support theEuropean industry and reinforce its competitiveness.

Enabling policies

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Workingmethod

Enabling policies

- PUBLIC AUTHORITIES AT ALL LEVELS - Directionsetting, through right boundary conditions and astimulating framework

- R&D ORGANISATIONS – Provide the relevantscientific and technological knowledge

- INDUSTRY produces in a circular value-creationsystem

- SOCIETY follows CE principles

POLICIES to drive a SYSTEMIC CHANGE!!

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Challenges ahead

- Finding new CE-related business models

- Re-organising value-creation processes

- Changing mind-sets and helping people(consumers, manager, policy-makers, etc.)with making good decisions

- Capitalising on the technological competitiveadvantage of European industries

- Overcoming regulatory barriers

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Enabling policies

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Enabling policiesPolicy recommendations

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Enabling policies

Policy setting the right boundary conditions and a CE-stimulating

framework

❖ Mission-oriented policy making towards the Circular Economy

❖ Public administration leads the change through circular public procurement

❖ Innovate financing models to meet the CE needs

❖ Harmonised CE regulation and standards

❖ Empower consumers to adopt sustainable lifestyles

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Science and technology enabling a CE

❖ Focus public support on emerging and advanced technology enablers, with

high potential to re-industrialise Europe within the CE

❖ Reinforce the value creation approach in Science and Technology -

Demonstrate the capacity of technological advancements to shift to a CE

❖ Promote and incentivise new ways of developing and delivering new

technologies

Enabling policies

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Educating for a Circular Future

❖ Society awareness - Educate consumers to create sustainable lifestyles

❖ Industry awareness to drive changes in value creation and supply chains

❖ Transformation of education and training systems

Enabling policies

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Transitioning to a circular value creation system

❖ Financial incentives for eco-design, sustainable production and CE business

models

❖ Legislative framework facilitating the transition to a circular value creation

system

❖ Support the articulation of regional/local closed loops, complex value networks

and CE one-stop-shops

Enabling policies

Thank you for your attention.Are there any questions?

Mirari Zaldua

POINT – Policies for Innovation and Technology

TECNALIA Research & Innovation

mirari.zaldua@tecnalia.com

Example cases of digital applications in material management practice • Recupel – Peter Sabbe

• Tracimat – Marc Dillen

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CEO RECUPEL

AIin RECYCLING as

enabler for augmentedcircularity

Peter Sabbe

Belgium’s e-waste PRO

2018

115.000 tonnesof E-wast collected

12.000 tonnesof hazardous waste removed & treated

81,2% recycled

92,5% valorisation

31 FTE1.200 indirect jobs

Big white27,5 Kton

Cooling & freezing 19,5 Kton

TV & Monitor 13,0 Kton

Lamps 1,5 Kton

Small domestic 49,8 Ktonappliances

Artificial Intelligence in sampling

49,8 Kton SDATreatment categories

% PC

% ICT

% Small white

% Other

Artificial Intelligence in sampling

Recupel built up a huge image database

of 0.000.508 sampled appliancesover the last 5 years

of 0.079.214 sampled appliancesof 1.049.768 sampled appliancesof 0.251.993 sampled appliancesof 0.584.126 sampled appliances

Building a neural netwerk

Artificial Intelligence in sampling

WITHOUT AI WITH AI

Artificial Intelligence in sampling

WITHOUT AI WITH AI

AIa strategic tool for Recupel

FASE 1 Product recognition in 2019

FASE 2 Extended product recognition

• Brand, product category, type, year• Send data back to producers for LCA or other• Broader scope (other - waste - streams…)

FASE 3 Circular solutions based on product recognition

• Parts harvesting• Material harvesting

FASE 4 Product recognition & sensoring

• In or not• Where to find it

Artificial Intelligence in sampling

CIRCULAR

Knowledge center& partner of

producers, recyclers& other ecosystems

INNOVATION

Frontrunnerin Europe

with regard to innovative solutions

THANK YOUfor your attention

www.recupel.be

Are there any questions?

Recupel vzw

August Reyerslaan 80

1030 Brussels

High quality recycling in a circular building economyThe Tracimat-system

Marc Dillen (VCB)

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High-quality recycling in a circular building economy

Marc Dillen

General Director

Flemish Construction Confederation (VCB)

The Flemish model is shaped by local factors

• Flanders + Brussels

• approx. 13,900 km²

• 7,341,000 inhabitants

• High population density

• Scarcity of building plots

• Lack of primary granulates

• Limited number of landfill sites

remaining

• High landfill taxes

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In Flanders: construction as a frontrunner in waste reuse

C&DW

> 16 million tonnes of CDW / year

Mainly stony fraction (which is 90% of all CDW)

95% recycled

Excavated soil

> 16 million tonnes / year

36% reuse on site

70% reuse off site

Circular economy – quality management

CREATE MARKET ESTABLISH CONFIDENCE

GOOD QUALITY OF RECYCLED MATERIAL

End of waste criteria – reuse standards

Traceability

Independent control organisation

Network of recycling facilities

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The Flemish model: a leader in regulation

• OVAM (Flemish Public Waste Agency)

- works out and implements policy on soil remediation and waste

• End of waste criteria for recycled granulates and for

excavated soil

• Regulations for crushers

• Improves the environmental quality of recycled granulates

• Regulations for temporary storage places

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Supply chain management – Traceability system

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Starting Point for Urban Mining

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Since august 2018• 1200 pre-demolition audits in

database• 97% of buildings contain hazardous

waste (mostly asbestos)

Database and online platform• Building type • Volume• Location• Material list

Circular building economy

• Urban mining

• Data about materials in our cities, in our buildings – material that

will be available at short-term

• Data for setting up recycling plants and boosting recycling

• facilitate the provision of recycled raw materials for other

processing industries

• Use of recycled materials through quality assurance!

• Trust of the potential users of these materials

• Substitute for primary materials

• Better access to insurance policies

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The Flemish model: a leader in best practices

• Intensive recycling market based on supply and demand

• Decades-long history of reusing recycled materials for public works

• Technical supervision by an independent third party

• Tracimat and Grondbank

• Provides quality assurance for recycling companies

• Promotes recycling and up-cycling

Basic model can be taken over, with local adjustments and changes to reflect

national regulations

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For more information

www.circularconstruction.org

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