BUIS for inter-company recycling networks using the example of recycling exchanges and networks

Recycling networks are all types of company co-operations whose purpose is the efficient recycling of waste. Alliances can arise by chance and exist only sporadically, e.g. exchange relationships via recycling exchanges, or be well-organised and long-term, e.g. recycling networks. In our research on recycling exchanges, one of the questions we are investigating is what a promising option might look like for brokering recycled goods between production companies and waste disposal companies. The particular focus here is on the added value of a realisation based on modern Internet technologies. Research questions on recycling networks deal in particular with the conception and implementation of an inter-company recycling information centre for the purpose of providing information on recycling goods and their recycling possibilities as well as the electronic (agent-based) determination of possible recycling relationships. The focus is also on coordinating partners in recycling networks and linking them to PRPS systems.