RECREATE Innovation Programme
Introduction
The main objective of the RECREATE project is to develop a set of innovative technologies aimed at exploiting the potential of end-of-life complex composite waste (mainly carbon fibre reinforced composites, and glass fibre reinforced composites) as a feedstock for profitable reuse of parts and materials in the manufacturing industry. For this purpose, an Innovation programme supports the maturation process of these Key exploitable technologies and enable them to find the most promising Exploitation pathways to meaningful uses – and users – while maximising their circularity and sustainability levels and enter the exploitation process.
CASTech is an assessment tool, which assesses a specific aspect of an overall impact of a proposed solution. Our assessment focus is on a proposed solution, which should provide some improvement in terms of circularity level. We consider an Exploitable solution to be composed of a (1) Key exploitable technology being put in a specific (2) Exploitation pathway.
In order to evaluate a circularity level of a proposed solution which is based on a key exploitable technology put in the context of a selected exploitation pathway, we need to collect data at several levels through the CASTech questionnaire.
Please, take into account that we can only evaluate the circularity level of a proposed solution, when a key exploitable technology is put in the context of a specific exploitation pathways. In other words, a technology cannot create an impact if it is not put in a context of a meaningful use. Therefore, we first define the exploitation pathway chosen to for the exploitation of a selected key exploitable technology. Next, we evaluate the circularity level assessing two dimensions: circular potential of a proposed Exploitable solution.