DigInform

The circular economy makes a significant contribution to sustainability and resource efficiency by providing high-quality secondary raw materials. However, this requires close cooperation among the various players in the value chain: from waste-producing companies to transport, disposal and processing companies to the buyers of secondary raw materials. The digitization offers new opportunities to support this cooperation through powerful and secure information management. In the project “Digital Information Management in the Actor Chain of the Circular Economy in the Producing Industry – DigInform”, specific requirements for the information management system are being determined from various perspectives: those of the waste-generating companies, waste-recycling companies and buyers of secondary raw materials. Interviews and workshops with experts and practitioners from the different groups will be conducted. These perspectives will be brought together in a cross-actor concept of information management to form the basis of the data technology implementation. The ”TrustDBle" platform, which is built on an intelligent combination of blockchain and database technology, will be used as a common secure data basis. The effects of information management regarding climate protection and environmental impacts will be analyzed and evaluated. The practical testing and validation of the information management system will take place in the context of real corporate structures of a manufacturing company of the chemical industry and a waste management company. It is expected that the implementation of such a common information management system will bring significant positive effects in terms of sustainability, competitiveness and innovation, especially for smaller companies in Germany.