@inbook{455a5b2eb2b5430db5d5e12b58586ccc,
title = "Principles of Sustainable Product Design",
abstract = "The European Green Deal, the Circular Economy Action Plan, and the EU Plastics Strategy have the ambition to change the way plastics and plastics products are designed, manufactured, used, and recycled. In the meantime, over 300 large companies have pledged within the Circular Plastics Alliance to increase the share of recycled plastics in their products. However, such a transformation comes with multiple challenges, since recycled plastics are often different from virgin plastics when it comes to material properties and quality. This chapter has the goal to help designers master this transition and take first steps to introducing recycled plastics in their process. It deals with the concept of Design for and Design from Recycling with plastics as part of industrial circular product design. First, it introduces the reader to the fundamental concepts of material selection in product design. Afterward, it elaborates how to introduce recycled plastics in a non-disruptive manner into the production process.",
keywords = "Circular economy, Design for recycling, Plastics, Sustainability",
author = "Thijs Feenstra and Joop Onnekink and Anton Berwald and Gergana Dimitrova and Kim Ragaert",
note = "Funding Information: This chapter is the outcome of research performed within the PolyCE project that received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Grant Agreement number 730308. The presented results are the outcome of almost four years of close collaboration between the project partners and numerous external experts. The authors would like to thank all involved parties and in particular Pezy Group, Philips, MGG Polymers, Erion, Imagination Factory, Enva, Sun recycling, SWEEEP, Kuusakoski, and ecosystem. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.",
year = "2025",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-66209-6\_26",
language = "English",
volume = "Part F590",
series = "Springer Handbooks",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "539--554",
booktitle = "Springer Handbooks",
address = "United States",
}