Design for disassembly

Making decisions early in the design process to ensure easy and effective recycling or reuse often involves designing products for disassembly. Materials need to be easily, quickly and cost-effectively taken apart at end-of-life to separate into components and sort by material. The more complex the product, such as electronics, the harder this task becomes.

Design for Demand
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Who We Are and What We Do

Novelis and Forum for the Future share a commitment to sustainability. Novelis is working for long-term systemic change in how we produce and transform materials and is partnering with Forum for the Future to support and encourage wider adoption of circularity.

NOVELIS

Novelis Inc. is the global leader in aluminium rolled products and the world’s largest recycler of aluminium, delivering unique solutions for the most demanding global applications, such as beverage cans, automobiles, architecture and consumer electronics. In 2014 Novelis opened the world’s largest cutting-edge aluminium recycling facility in Nachterstedt, Germany.

FORUM FOR THE FUTURE

Forum is an independent non-profit organisation that works globally with business, government and others to solve complex sustainability challenges. We believe it is critical to transform the key systems we rely on to shape a brighter future and innovate for long-term success.

Thanks also go to a number of contributors and interviewees including Jaguar Land Rover, The Agency of Design, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, GKN Land Systems, Knowledge Transfer Network and Julian Allwood, professor of engineering and the environment at Cambridge University.

NOVELIS

Novelis Inc. is the global leader in aluminium rolled products and the world’s largest recycler of aluminium, delivering unique solutions for the most demanding global applications, such as beverage cans, automobiles, architecture and consumer electronics. In 2014 Novelis opened the world’s largest cutting-edge aluminium recycling facility in Nachterstedt, Germany.

FORUM FOR THE FUTURE

Forum is an independent non-profit organisation that works globally with business, government and others to solve complex sustainability challenges. We believe it is critical to transform the key systems we rely on to shape a brighter future and innovate for long-term success.