Process Types and Transfer Types in circular economy
Interesting list from @pmackay around what they have developed as a list of process types and transfer types or exchange types. And a way to include the concept of good > bad in terms of effect in the circular economy.
From Gitter: pmackay 12:10 FYI, here's the list of exchange types and processes we've worked on for the circular economy (no doubt there are more): Renting Borrowing Lending Reuse Repairing Donating Selling Giving / Gifting Swapping Repurposing Refurbish Upcycling Recycling Closed loop recycling Downcycling Composting Home composting Home digestion Anerobic digestion Disposal Landfill Pyrolisis Gasification fosterlynn 12:14 @pmackay cool, studying.
Do you think its possible to have a common set of Types defined?
Sometimes it is and sometimes is isn't, because it is important for emerging groups to work through how they want to define the next economy, there are lots of experiments in this transitional stage. (We had a lot of discussion on this in Agent definition, because @elf-pavlik coming out of LOD perspective wanted to try to define the Agent Relationship Types. Which I get. But we just aren't ready to do that.) @pmackay looks like your list is partially specific to your domain, and partially pretty general. Still studying.... bhaugen 12:28 @pmackay nice list, though, I like it! pmackay 12:29 basically all methods of what can done with a thing, going from good to worse in terms of levels of circular economy. Reduce/reuse at top, dispose at bottom, etc. bhaugen 12:29 @/all - first draft of https://github.com/valueflows/valueflows/wiki/Provenance more to come, later today maybe fosterlynn 12:30 thanks @bhaugen ; @pmackay i didn't mean to be critical! i like your list too! bhaugen 12:30 good-to-worse is an interesting relationship among process types I wonder if that will have analogs in other domains? pmackay 12:31 of course its only a good > bad relationship in context of circular economy and waste hierarchy