DISPOSAL AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY
At Kompetenz-Center Entsorgung und Kreislaufwirtschaft , we support small and medium-sized companies in the private and public sectors in the areas of waste disposal and sorting as well as manufacturers and operators of plants for material or energy recovery and processing of all types of waste.
Against the backdrop of the energy transition and the associated goal of replacing fossil fuels and raw materials in product life cycles, the recycling of secondary raw materials is becoming increasingly important. On the one hand, due to the requirement to reduceCO2 emissions, and on the other hand, a resulting increase in the purchase price for fossil raw materials will lead to greater economic efficiency in the use of waste as a raw material.
An important approach here is the increased use of sorted waste in order to reuse it in a real cycle according to its chemical composition. A good example of this is the recycling of PET, where this approach is already being implemented in many products.
In addition to material reuse, the use of waste to generate energy will also become more important in the future. Instead of today's waste incineration plants, which are also burdened with the requirements to reduceCO2 emissions, new technologies that use waste both energetically and chemically will increasingly be used. Such plants can then also be used to produce hydrogen from waste, giving the waste management industry an additional overlap with the energy industry that goes far beyond the use of district heating. Hydrogen produced from waste can make a major contribution in many ways to the conversion of the energy supply from fossil fuels to renewable and sustainable energy sources.
All of these developments will not only mean technological realignments for companies in the waste management and recycling industry , but the expertise of their employees will also have to change and adapt. In the future, this sector will also increasingly require scientists and engineers from the fields of chemistry, process engineering or energy and plant engineering. In view of the current shortage of specialists and managers, we support these companies in building up this expertise by selecting suitable employees.