Circular Economy Initiatives Survey |
Your participation in this survey will support the research conducted by a group of young scientiest at Clausthal University of Technology.
No personal information will be disclosed, and the anonymized results will be showcased in a presentation showcasing Circular Economy initiatives in mining.
Thanks in advance for sharing your initatives and experience with a team of younger scientists.
For questions, comments, or consultation, feel free to reach Sandra Nowosad at sandra.nowosad@tu-clausthal.de
Survey insights: The survey comprises 14 questions and can be answered in an estimated time between 6 to 8 minutes.
Some definitions:
"A Circular Economy describes an economic system that is based on business models which replace the 'end-of-life' concept with reducing, alternatively reusing, recycling and recovering materials in production/distribution and consumption processes, thus operating at the micro-level (products, companies, consumers), meso level (eco-industrial parks) and macro-level (city, region, nation and beyond), to accomplish sustainable development, which implies creating environmental quality, economic prosperity and social equity, to the benefit of current and future generations" (Kirchherr et al., 2017, page 225).
Circularity describes economic, technical, and environmental systems that aim to eliminate waste and maximise the reuse of resources. Circular systems make use of design, recycling, reuse, remanufacturing and refurbishment to create a closed loop system, based on the ideal of preserving ‘virgin’ materials, reducing waste creation and maximising waste reuse .
Both terms are often referred to as synonyms, whereas circularity has a process-oriented approach rather than economy factors. Below the circular economy framework proposed by the Center for Digital Technologies of TU Clausthal.
If this topic got your attention you can read our last publication on the topic here [link].
