Sustainable Products & Material Flows
Andreas Manhart
Senior Researcher
Special Expertise
Main areas of research:
- Circular economy, waste management and recycling
- Resource management
- Sustainable products and consumption
Topics:
- Circular economy
- E-scrap and battery recycling
- Resources and global material cycles
- Extended producer responsibility (EPR)
- Social and environmental standards in global value chains
- Sustainability cooperation with emerging economies
Methods:
- Evaluation and improvement of recycling processes
- Analysis of environmental hazard potentials in raw materials
- Benchmark assessments of secondary lead smelters
- Social Life Cycle Assessment (s-LCA)
- Product Sustainability Assessment (PROSA)
Key Projects
- E-Waste compensation as an international financing mechanism in Nigeria
- Research & stakeholder engagement for improved management of used batteries in Africa
- Sustainable solutions for reducing plastic packaging in Asia
- Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI)
- Marine litter and microplastics: Promoting the environmentally sound management of plastic wastes and achieving the prevention and minimization of the generation of plastic wastes
- Concepts for sustainable solid waste management
- E-waste Ghana: Enhancing capacities of informal sector stakeholders & payment system for e-waste
- Indo-German financial cooperation – scoping assignment solid waste management
- Strategic Dialogue on Sustainable Raw Materials for Europe (STRADE)
- Ghanaian-German Financial Cooperation (FC): Sound disposal and recycling of electrical and electronic equipment – feasibility study for the preparation of a new FC project
- Research on resource efficiency in the ICT sector
- The Lead Recycling Africa Project – standards for lead smelters: For a strong environmental movement in Africa
Professional Training and Career
- 2005-2008: Research Analyst for German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), Berlin
- Since 2005: Researcher at Öko-Institut, Sustainable Products & Material Flows Division
- 2003-2005: Member of staff on the “Mitigation of Geohazards – Urban Quality” development cooperation project of Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Indonesia
- 1999-2000: Academic year abroad, University of Edinburgh, Great Britain
- 1997-2003: Undergraduate studies in Geography, LMU Munich; degree: Dipl.-Geogr. (Diploma Geographer)
Language Skills
English, Indonesian, French
Contact
Andreas Manhart
- Sustainable Products & Material Flows
- Senior Researcher
- Freiburg
- +49 761 45295-0