Volker Kappius has been CEO of Delacamp AG since February 2005. Prior to this position, he worked for Dell Computers, and business consultancy company Putz & Partner. He holds a postgraduate degree in Business Ethics, and studied Business Administration at the University of Hamburg, with a focus on Marketing, International Management, and Organisational Psychology. Kappius will address conference with a talk entitled ‘Remanufacturing and the circular economy’. It will discuss how a combination of mounting plastic waste and e-wase, and resource scarcity, has spurred the European Union, the United Nations, and national governments across the world into rethinking product cycles, from their development to their reuse. The talk will also consider how remanufactured cartridges are able to take advantage of this “second wave” and the preference for prolonged life cycles.Volker Kappius