4.1.2 What is Reuse?
Channel: Dezign Ark
Date: 2020-05-06

What is reuse? While the answer to this question may seem obvious, it is slightly more complex than it seems. In the video below, Bas Flipsen, senior lecturer at the TU Delft faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, discusses reuse as a circular strategy for packaging.

MAIN TAKEAWAYS

- Within the context of a circular economy, reusing a packaging item means to use it again for the same purpose, in its original form and without significantly altering or enhancing it.
- Repurposing a packaging item at home, for instance to store other products or food, is not considered reuse.
- Reusing a packaging item, rather than recycling it, preserves more of its embedded value in terms of energy, materials, labour and capital.
- Reuse can be a good strategy for prolonging a packaging lifetime and can be applied to a product’s primary, secondary or even tertiary packaging.

See full course here: https://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/sustainable-packaging-circular-economy/

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