Tool
Consumer goods,
Companies looking for circular product-packaging combinations
The HvA RETHINK tool helps companies initiate their need-thinking process to arrive at circular solutions from a systems perspective.
The HvA RETHINK tool was developed by packaging researchers at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and consists of the Rethink map set and the Rethink canvas. This RETHINK tool helps companies to initiate the process of need-based thinking to arrive at circular solutions from a system perspective and need-based thinking. The tool was developed together with and for companies that want to generate new circular product-packaging combinations. It is currently a beta version that HvA together with other knowledge and business partners wants to further elaborate and validate in order to make it eventually available for independent use by companies.
Article about the HvA RETHINK tool in Packaging Management You go to a Dutch versionThe Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) is a knowledge institution offering a wide range of higher vocational education. By linking education and practice-oriented research, the HvA contributes to the renewal of professional practice. Circular design at the HvA includes research and education at various HvA faculties.
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