POLYPROBLEM report: The Circularity Code

IT’s NOT Science-Fiction 3
WHY SMART PLASTICS NEED COOPERATIVE PEOPLE 4
Digital opportunities for design, production, use, and recycling 4
Knowing what works | How plastics processors will design more sustainable components in the future 5
Knowing what’s in it | The digital product passport also requires a cultural change 7
“Shared learning as a chance” | Christoph Kugler, Plastics Center SKZ 10
Knowing what’s coming | We have the technology but no business model 12
Three questions for | Jochen Moesslein of Polysecure 14
CLICKS FOR SMARTER CONSUMPTION 16
How digital tools can help us live a more sustainable life 16
Apps USED FOR Recycling | About games, incentives, and responsibilities 17
Working hand in hand with big business | Creator Stefan Siegl about the Austrian RecycleMich app 20
CONCLUSION | Uncertainty with a silver lining 23
The ADDED VALUE OF REUSEability | Turnaround in the to-go sector: all digital or nothing? 24
LOADS OF WASTE. LOADS OF DATA. 26
How digital pioneers hope to renew the global waste management industry 26
TransparenCY PAYS | Digital collection and analysis of waste data 27
Op-ed by Dominic Santschi | Co-founder of Ampliphi 30
Intelligent macht sauber | Technology that optimizes urban waste management 32
At the touch of a Button | Digital opportunities for waste management in emerging and developing countries 35
DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CREATE TRANSPARENCY AND TRUST | MONITORING BY APP 40
Designing an app with waste pickers over coffee | Thierry Sanders, managing director of Circular Action B.v., 42
ON LAND, ON WATER AND IN THE AIR | How digital tools can close data gaps 45
FROM A BIRD’S EYE VIEW | Remote sensing of plastic emissions 48
A CURSE AND A BLESSING 52
An interim conclusion 52
POLYPROBLEM: Knowledge. Transparency. Cooperation 54
Meeting the creators 55
LINKS TO THE ORGANIZATIONS MENTIONED 56
SOURCES 57

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