After diving into the current recycling process of electronics and how to use recycled materials in the past weeks, let’s zoom out again and explore how recycling will look like in the future.

Learning goals

Upon the completion of Module 4, you will be able to explain how the production, consumption and recovery systems are expected to evolve in the future, and what the implications are for the design process.

More specifically:

• You are able to describe the expected business and social developments influencing future DfR activities.
• You are able to describe the expected technological and organizational developments influencing future DfR activities.
• You are able to evaluate and adapt the product and material design based on these future developments.