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Feasibility & Desirability: How Bosch built a drill from post-consumer recycled plastics

Feasibility & Desirability: How Bosch built a drill from post-consumer recycled plastics

Circularity.fm vor 7 Monaten

Recycled Plastics for Premium Brands

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Understanding, building and managing circular business models

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Can recycled technical plastics meet quality, performance, and
price requirements at the same time? In this episode, Isabelle Gola
from Bosch Power Tools explains how Bosch developed a closed-loop
pilot for power tools using recycled technical plastics while
maintaining the same quality and performance standards, at the same
price point for the end consumer. What you’ll hear in this episode:
• How recycled technical plastics were tested against existing
quality and performance specifications. • How communication,
certification, and transparency shaped internal alignment and
customer response. • How Bosch defined success in the pilot, with
feedback, learning, and data as central KPIs. The episode also
looks at practical challenges behind the closed-loop approach,
including reverse logistics considerations, sourcing sufficient
volumes, and using disassembly data to inform eco-design and future
product development. This episode is part of the “Recycled Plastics
form Premium Brands” series, sponsored by HolyPoly.