Design for circular Made in Italy. How to foster for efficient Waste Management into manufacturing ecosystem

The advancement of production systems' technology necessitates redefined assessment methods across production stages, addressing sustainability needs. This requires vast, updated data on material and process impacts. European directives, like the Circular Economy Action Plan, promote waste minimization and resource optimization. Research aims to link Italian economic activity classification (ATECO) with the European Waste Catalogue (EWC), facilitating designers with circular alternatives. Design's role is pivotal in aligning stakeholder perspectives and addressing data accessibility challenges. Through a qualitative analysis of the varied data gathered and examined via multiple SWOT analyses, the Research underscores the importance of Design in advocating for a mutual comprehension among different stakeholders. This shed the light on the challenges in accessing and interpreting relevant data, alongside the possible divergent priorities. These initial insights could ultimately encourage new Industrial Symbiosis and innovative supply chains, in which waste can be reused in previously unthought-of applications but which require a design effort to identify the right peculiarities for their valorisation. This Research serves as the first step in this process, creating a common understanding among stakeholders involved in the continuous assessing of products life cycle.