CCE\u00a0<\/a>elevates RWTH’s distinctive technical and ecological expertise in recycling materials such as metals, minerals, textiles, plastics, water, and carbon to a new level, and gives the university its own specialist platform. Institutes for social affairs, business, science, and digitalization are also integrated here. \u201cRWTH can further expand its already strong network to develop innovative solutions for sustainable business models,\u201d explains the Center’s spokesperson, Professor Bernd Friedrich, head of the Process Metallurgy and Metal Recycling Institute IME.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe circular economy covers a broad scope of almost all social and scientific areas, from the extraction of raw materials to consumer goods at the end of their use. It aims to maximize the value of goods and applications by rethinking, reducing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing, recovering, and partially recycling them after their primary or even secondary use. \u201cIt is more important than ever to design products, goods, and materials that maximize circulation from the outset. Only this holistic view of various factors can help us close the loop by manufacturing more circular products and generating additional alternative uses for them during their life-cycle,\u201d emphasizes Friedrich. However, this can only be achieved when citizens, politics, industry, and researchers all work together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn various projects, RWTH has been dealing with the topic of circular economy directly or indirectly for decades. In view of the existing global challenge, it is imperative that we synergistically and systematically apply the expertise from all across the university by uniting it under one roof,\u201d says RWTH Rector Professor Ulrich R\u00fcdiger about the strategic step of founding the Center, in which all nine faculties of the University are involved. Initial large-scale projects aim to minimize waste, maximize the value of recycled materials, help shape policy, and ensure acceptance by society. The goal is to work on a regional, national, and international level while also creating an academic curriculum around the circular economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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