Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials
- Offered byedX
Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials at edX Overview
Duration | 6 weeks |
Total fee | ₹3,563 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Schedule type | Self paced |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Credential | Certificate |
Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials at edX Highlights
- Offered by Institution DelftX
- Gain practical knowledge of the circular economy, recycling, refurbishment, and remanufacturing
- Video Transcript Available: English
- Earn a Verified Certificate on Successful Completion
Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials at edX Course details
- What you'll learn:
- Current challenges and opportunities in resource resilience
- Environmental problems caused by waste mismanagement of products that contain CRMs
- Waste collection methods and efficient collection of waste in households and at companies
- Remanufacturing, refurbishment, re-use and recycling processes of products which contain CRMs
- Waste prevention through chain optimization
- Benefits of circular procurement to keep critical raw materials in the loop through smart waste management
- How product design can support efficient recycling and remanufacturing
- How to uncover new business models to reduce waste and to make your business more resource resilient
- This course will be of value to a wide range of professionals working in or interested in this field. These include professionals involved in producing products containing CRMs (such as electronics) as well as local or national government officials tasked with organizing waste management and recycling for these products. Students interested in the field of waste management will also find this course helpful for their studies in electronics, industrial design, and industrial ecology.
Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials at edX Curriculum
Week 1: Urgency and challenges with critical raw materials (CRMs) and waste
How can we find out what CRMs are in products, and how can we get them back?
Week 2: Different collection systems for recycling and remanufacturing/refurbishment, recycling psychology and the separate waste collection of commercial and household waste.
Week 3: Recycling technology: pre-processing, metallurgy and its challenges
Week 4: Remanufacturing and refurbishment systems: return of product (reverse logistics), disassembly and repair of the product, market demand and economics
Week 5: Product design using better recycling or remanufacturing and refurbishment. Substitution of materials
Week 6: New business models to generate profits from products that last longer. Circular procurement for government and companies
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