Research Areas
- Strategies for waste prevention and preparation for reuse
- Product design for recycling
- Substitution strategies for primary resources
- Ecological and economic considerations of existing and future recycling measures
- Political and economic consulting
- Capacity building in developing and emerging countries
- Development and implementation of waste management bachelor's and master's degree programs as well as training courses on integrated waste management in industrialized, emerging and developing countries
- Resource-efficient and low-emission urban development - effects of transformational change on the waste and circular economy
- CO2 balancing, climate protection and the circular economy
- Material flow analyses of waste streams - analysis and recycling potential
- Material flow analyses
- Sewage sludge utilization (thermal, biological, phosphorus recycling),
- Biogas production and process optimization in the recycling of biogenic residues
- Informal sector activities in the waste and recycling industry
- Recycling of recyclable materials: Plastic, glass, paper, biowaste
- Recovery of mineral waste materials
- Recovery and recycling of CFRP and GFRP-based materials
- Laboratory processing and analysis of waste