Webinar
Designers, SMEs
Today we know much more about substances with harmful effects on humans, animals and the environment than we used to. What if there are Substances of Very High Concern (ZZS) in your product or process? How can you find out? And how can you take this into account in the design and choice of materials? In this webinar you will learn about substances of very high concern and safe by design.
On July 12, 2022, the Circular Design platform CIRCONNECT organized an Expert Café on Substances of Very High Concern and circular design in practice. CIRCONNECT partners CIRCO and NRK together with RIVM and VNCI gave more background and insight into this theme.
The Expert Café featured the following topics and speakers:
We are moving toward a fully circular economy by 2050. In this, raw materials are constantly reused so that there is no waste or as little as possible. The value and thus the application possibilities increase for used materials when they are not harmful to people and the environment. In other words, if they do not contain any substances of concern (ZZS).
For companies and designers, the first question is whether such substances are incorporated into their products. If so, the next question is how these products and/or processes can be (re)designed. In a way that they have no harmful effects on people and the environment throughout their life cycle, their reuse value is preserved and the materials can be used without limitation. This is called Safe by Design. This online Expert Café discusses awareness, substitution and prevention. Various organizations will also share their experiences from practice.
Together with RIVM, CIRCO developed a practical Safe by Design module. This allows companies and designers to make an initial assessment of whether their product contains possible ZZS and what consequences this may have in the chain in the future.
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The following presentations were given during the Expert Café:
- click on the title to download the presentation -.
Substances of Very High Concern (PHS) in the Circular Economy
- Frieke Heens
Safe by Design and ZZS
- Ingeborg Gort
Examples of phasing out ZZS
- Alex van Gelderen
Circular design: module (high) concern substances
- Michiel van Kuppevelt
More information on substances of very high concern can be found here:
Website RIVM
Website Chemicals Goed Geregeld (Rijksoverheid).
The circular economy does not arise by itself. CIRCO (a program of TKI-CLICKNL) focuses on getting a new market moving. CIRCO therefore activates - with the support of the government - entrepreneurs and creative professionals to (re)design products, services and business models in order to then do circular business.
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