Designing Electronics for a Circular Economy: How to balance Repair and Recycling

Dorien C. van Dolderen; Doris L. Versloot; Soroush Aghaeian; Conny A. Bakker; Ruud Balkenende

doi:10.54337/plate2025-10335

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Dorien C. van Dolderen Delft University of Technology, Netherlands https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3058-4770
Doris L. Versloot Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Soroush Aghaeian Delft University of Technology, Netherlands https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8821-035X
Conny A. Bakker Delft University of Technology, Netherlands https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9982-8788
Ruud Balkenende Delft University of Technology, Netherlands https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5990-3955

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https://doi.org/10.54337/plate2025-10335

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Circular economy, Design for repair, Design for recycling, Electronic product design, Resource recovery

Author Biography

Dorien C. van Dolderen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Dorien van Dolderen is a PhD researcher in the Design for Sustainability research group at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology interested in improving the recyclability of electronics through the creation and validation of design for recycling guidelines. After completing her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology, Dorien stayed in Delft for the Master’s program Integrated Product Design with a focus on sustainable design and design for the circular economy. She spent one semester in Copenhagen to expand her knowledge to sustainable design theory and methods and focused especially on sustainable transitions. She graduated Cum Laude with her graduation project “Designing a sustainable transition in the MedTech industry: An analysis of the current challenges for the implementation of the circular economy on surgical devices like the single-use endocutter.” Dorien has now stepped away from improving the design of medical devices to fit the circular economy and instead works on the recyclability of electronics through her PhD for NWO’s research project Circular Circuits.

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Designing Electronics for a Circular Economy

How to balance Repair and Recycling

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Dorien C. van Dolderen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

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