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SUMMARY:Does material circularity rhymes with environmental efficiency?
DTSTART:20180607T121500
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DESCRIPTION:Manuele Margni - Polytechnique Montréal\nCircular economy's
  contribution to sustainability lies in a balanced relationship between th
 e ecosphere and the technosphere. Its fundamental equilibrium is supported
  by 3 interdependent conditions: 1) preserving the stock of resources\, 2)
  relieving pollution reservoirs and 3) adapting the human-made capital to 
 optimize economic activity under environmental requirements.\n\nCurrent as
 sessment tools struggle to capture undesirable effects resulting from circ
 ular initiatives\, such as a growing demand for energy in recovery and rec
 ycling processes\, burden shifting from resource preservation to pollution
  generation and unattended rebound effects from behavioural change of cons
 umers. It is therefore fundamental to adopt and develop assessment tools\,
  devoted to circular economy\, that are systemic enough to prevent from th
 ose undesirable effects.\n\nThis seminar will present\, through two case s
 tudies\, an attempt to evaluate the relevance of circular strategies in te
 rms of both resource preservation and ecological conservation. The first c
 ase study aims to support Québec Government in identifying relevant schem
 es to improve the circularity of three strategic metals (Fe\, Cu and Li) a
 t the provincial level. This challenge is addressed through an approach th
 at integrates MFA\, LCA and partial equilibrium technical-economic models.
  The second case study is about evaluating end-of-life strategies for the 
 tire industry with an approach that combines both Material Circularity Ind
 ex and LCA to discuss results in respect to four different pathways that c
 haracterize the relationships between circularity achievements and an impr
 oved economic activity.\n\nThis seminar will also to point out some of the
  current methodological challenges in the development of relevant metrics 
 and underlying methods to assess the sustainability of circular (and non c
 ircular) activities.\n\nSandwiches will be provided.\n\n------------------
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 -\nAbout the Speaker:\n\nManuele Margni is invited professor at IPESE Labo
 ratory of Pr. François Maréchal at epfl. Full professor in the Mathemati
 cs and Industrial Engineering department at Polytechnique Montréal\, he i
 s co-chair holder of the International Life Cycle Chair\, a research partn
 ership with the financial support from 9 industrial partners within the CI
 RAIG (www.ciraig.com). His research activities aim to develop life cycle b
 ased tools to support sustainable production and consumption with a focus 
 on the assessment of life cycle impacts\, risks and benefits related to ex
 isting and new products\, services and technologies. He also teaches Life 
 Cycle Assessment\, Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Modeling. I
 n parallel with his research activities\, Manuele gained considerable expe
 rience working together with industry co-founding the epfl spin-off Quanti
 s International\, where he still retains a key advisory role.\n 
LOCATION:GR A1 402 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GRA1402
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