New MA Thesis on the value of a Digital Product Passport
In her Master's Thesis Gavineesha Liew, TU Darmstadt, investigates the potential of increasing the resource efficiency in the value-chain of plastic packing waste.
At the Technical University of Darmstadt in the interdisciplinary Master's programme Energy Science and Engineering, Gavineesha Liew defended her Master's thesis "Exploring the Potentials for Increasing the Resource Efficiency in the Plastic Packaging Value Chain with a Digital Product Passport: An Analysis of Information, Material and Energy Flows."
The thesis investigated the potential of increasing the resource efficiency in the value-chain of plastic packing waste with focus on the end-of-life (EoL) phase. Further, it proposed a digital product passport for plastic packaging as a promising solution in response to common limitations in strategies aiming to transition from linear to circular economies. Supported by expert interviews from EoL and complemented by up-to-date literature, these findings were used to propose a DPP data requirements and system for plastic packaging. Finally, this study also explored the impact of a fully realized circular packaging economy onto waste-to-energy initiatives from plastic packaging.
For more information on the topic, do not hesitate to contact Alice do Carmo Precci Lopes, Technical University of Darmstadt.
