Do not miss the opportunity to present your progress on circular economy, the development of resource-efficient electr(on)ic products and services as well as
innovative projects and initiatives, organise a workshop or similar event.
Going Green – CARE INNOVATION 2023 will be organised in a hybrid mode. Therefore we accept abstracts for on-site or online presentations (15-20
minutes). Please find potential discussion topics below.
Please submit your abstract in time using the Abstract Registration
form or send it as PDF (indicating if you want to present on-site or online) per email to bernd.kopacek@care-electronics.net.
February 28, 2023 Deadline for submission of full paper
February 20, 2023 Preliminary Program on the web
March 5, 2023 Deadline for Pre-Registration discounts
May 9, 2023 Official opening
Market-driven developments: Economic forces driving industry towards sustainability!
- Circular economy (metrics, case studies, business models)
- Sustainable consumption
- Consumer needs in sustainability, how to engage consumers?
- Green ICT
- Use of technology to dematerialize and decarbonize the ICT supply chain
- How are sustainability indexes and large funds influencing the corporate attitude towards sustainability?
- What is the role of the individual ‘green’ customers, consumer organizations and retail?
- The role and value of Internet of Things for environmental communication
- Impact of ecological procurement strategies by governments, retailers and business partners
- Role and expectations of eco-taxes, eco-legislation and voluntary, ecological programs influencing our industry
- Market demand for product miniaturization versus life time extension through reparability and refurbishment
- Eco-labels and eco-standards for product declaration
- Global Eco-label standard
- Eco-lifestyle & eco-marketing & greenwashing
- Ecodesign as a business element for ensuring future competitiveness and changing business models
- Influencing individual behaviours, attitudes and habits to promote sustainability
- Product Service Systems and alternative ownership models (leasing, pay-per-use, sharing)
- Dematerialisation (purchasing the service, not the product)
- Critical materials – will there be more or less critical materials in the future?
- Acceptance of closing the loop technologies, products and services
- Supplying future needs: mobility, health and global communication
- Education as a key enabler of circular economy
- Energy-saving products, fuel cells, solar cells, human powered systems
- Products/concepts with reduced energy consumption in use phase
- Energy-efficient products
- Energy-efficiency and savings
- Services for energy end-use efficiency
- Energy-efficient procurement and purchasing
- Balancing supply (wind, solar, bio) and demand – the role of smart products
- Resource efficiency, material footprint, material circulation indicators
Technology-driven developments: New high-tech products need to be ecologically conscious!
- Design for sustainability
- Eco-design, eco-innovation, integrated product policy
- Eco-efficient life cycles of products (durability), product value extension, long life product
- Resource efficient, commercially viable and sustainable production processes
- Production 4.0 and its effects on the environment
- Eco-conscious developments in sub-assembly/parts manufacturing influencing the environmental footprint of final products
- Greenhouse gas emissions: Reduction in production vs. avoidance through more climate-friendly products
- Energy harvesting and storage systems
- Modular configuration and customized products
- Additive manufacturing
- Interdependencies between software and hardware development
- Increasing the sustainability of raw materials used in electronics
- Limitation and global distribution of nano- and micro-metals – an underestimated problem
- Green nanotechnology
- Decreasing material intensity, toxicity and criticality
- Rare earth and critical materials - how can they be substituted or at least its use reduced?
- How can all the banned RoHS materials (lead, cadmium, chrome VI, mercury, brominated flame retardants) be substituted?
- Microplastic: current trends, environmental impact, potential solutions in different areas
- Smart materials
- Biomaterials and bioinspired materials
- HFR/ BFR/CFR/PVC-free materials and technologies
- Digitalization & dematerialization – technologies that substitute/eliminate the need for an eco-intensive product
- Data collection & communication – technologies improving data collection, analysis, interpretation and communication
- Battery driven products: LCA, impact on environment, best practices, implication of global trend towards growing use of battery driven products
- Connectivity and blockchain technology as enabler of environmentally sound solutions
- Digital platform for product lifecycle and material circulation management
- 3D printing and repair, remanufacturing, recycling
Circular Economy: Technologies, Business Cases and Regulations
- Solutions to implement Individual Producer Responsibility (IPR)
- Incentivized schemes increasing collection, design for recycling, recycling – solutions, concepts, experiences
- Increasing the sustainability of raw materials used in electronics
- Identification, separation and recycling of plastics from waste (WEEE, ELV and others)
- Impacts of lowering POP BFR limits in recycled plastics
- New markets for recycled plastics within a circular economy – problems and solutions
- Product reliability issues connected to the use of higher content of recycled content – changed material characteristics, chemical issues, re-recycling challenges
- Examples of successful use of post consumer recycled materials in electronics manufacturing
- Co-production/co-mining as a strategy for value recovery
- Recycling of precious metals in End-of-Life-products
- Recycling and re-use of PV modules
- Recycling and re-use of Li-Ion and other batteries from electronic products, PV-installations and electro-mobility
- Risks of high energy Li-ion batteries in the recycling chain.
- Recycling of rare earth and other critical metals
- Digital Product Passport (DPP) - advantages and challenges throughout the value chain
- Digitalization in take-back, EPR management, recycling, re-use, refurbishment and remanufacturing
- Sustainability of raw materials sourced through circular economy programs
- Incentive schemes for take-back that drives optimal recovery of critical metals
- Are the current recycling and recovery rates too low/high? Will re-use quota be feasible?
- Design for disassembly and recycling
- Eco-efficient take-back schemes and logistics for collection of used appliances
- Right to Repair - metrics, regulations, impact on 3rd party and OEM business models.
- Value Retention Processes – integration and management
- The positive effects of remanufacture, reconditioning and remarketing
- Tamper proof (blockchain enabled) systems to track the lifecycle of a product from production to End-of-Life
- Maintenance, repair, remanufacturing
- Automation of disassembly, repair, remanufacturing, recycling processes
- Re-using and recycling products in emerging economies – will this be the ultimate solution?
- International shipments of e-waste – problems with the quantification and qualification of a growing problem
- Lacking global standardisation of WEEE material recycling
- Calculation principles for claiming recycled content in materials/products
- Metrics for circular economy - system boundaries and calculation methods
- Collection and recycling in developing countries (legal developments, EPR, informal sector, …) – how can we improve it?
- Information sharing among OEMs, recyclers and stakeholders
- Financials for going circular
- Capacity building for re-use, refurbishment and recycling in emerging economies
- Rise of social repair and reuse activities that cover EEE e.g. repair cafes, etc
- Inventories on best-practices in redesign, re-use and recycling
- Reverse logistics
- Software as a driver for product obsolescence
- Biotechnologies, hydro-metallurgy, … in waste treatment
Legislation driven developments: Impacts of WEEE, RoHS, ErP, REACH, ...
- What policies at the national level have the most significant potential to drive adoption of sustainable behaviours, attitudes, and habits? Which are most likely to create local jobs?
- What is the status of implementation of the WEEE and RoHS directives around the world?
- Quality assurance in the implementation of the WEEE directive – what are governments, branch organizations, collective systems, individual producers, … doing?
- The importance of mandatory Green Public Procurement (GPP) at EU, national and regional level?
- Conflict Minerals: Response to the Dodd-Frank Act and long-term solutions for conflict regions
- RoHS and WEEE going international – a success story or concerns?
- Harmonization of chemical legislations (RoHS, REACH and others) requirements globally and global development/reporting challenges for global manufacturers
- From multinational environmental regulations to local country tax legislation – how the Swedish Chemical Tax and similar initiatives may change the landscape of environmental driven
regulations?
- Harmonization of WEEE producer register and reporting in Europe and abroad
- Transboundary movement of waste from developed to less developed countries
- Case studies of successful enforcement campaigns, initiatives geared towards co-ordinated prosecution at EU level, smart inspections, campaigns aimed at countering illegal trade/operations.
- Social and political/legal barriers for re-use/refurbishment
- The impact of WEEE and RoHS on small and medium suppliers around the world – an underestimated problem
- Towards a best-policy – comparative assessment of present legislation and policies
- New EU framework for setting ecodesign requirements for sustainable products and repealing ErP directive
- Upcoming new EPR requirements globally
- EPR fee-modulation initiatives and approaches
- Integration of materials efficiency aspects into the Ecodesign Directive
- Implication of the new CEN circular design standard for the EEE sector
- New EU battery directive/regulation
- REACH and automotive/electronic industry – registration, notification
- Processes to get required REACH/ RoHS information from the global supply chain – best practice
- Compliance management
- Evaluation of environmentally conscious products & services (e.g. Life Cycle Assessment, LCA automation, fast track LCA, Life Cycle Impact Assessment, Life Cycle Management,
Techno-Economic Analysis, …)
- Net Carbon Zero strategies for the electronics sector - how to effectively reduce scope 3 emissions?
- Innovations in building and managing sustainable systems for electronics (organizational structures, relationship building, eco-system development, information sharing, decision making
processes, investments)