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January 2016, 30 together with the Utrecht Sustainability Institute.
This lab format was chosen because I had already moderated
11 circular economy labs as the institute’s director and, later, as
senior adviser. Earlier labs showed that this format works very
well when different parties are willing to seek circular solutions
together. This lab’s aim was to develop a strategy for redesigning
and recycling mattresses.
Representatives from the whole product chain, including recyclers,
and local and national governments attended the session. The
main obstacle turned out to be how to finance a better alternative.
To solve this problem, the participants proposed jointly setting up
a national initiative aimed at introducing a voluntarily EPR. This
policy would hold mattress companies responsible for ensuring
that their mattresses get eventually recycled. After all, recycling
costs money: about €10 per mattress.
The Circular Economy Lab on Mattresses on 25 January 2016.
30 See http://www.utrechtsustainabilityinstitute.nl.