Metal parts Wiring Cables Other electronic components Other metal components ABS Polyester PVC PP Other plastics GRI 3-3, 301-1 Management approach for 301-1, 306-1, 306-2, 306-3, 306-4 & 306-5 THE CHALLENGE The topic of circular economy touches upon various other sustainability issues. It affects our emissions as well as our waste management, and can have an impact on the challenges we face in our supply chain. The main challenge lies in moving all of our processes towards circular principles while maintaining the high level of quality we promise our customers and expect from ourselves. OUR PROGRESS We have developed two guidelines which describe what options should be considered while designing a product to 1. make it more easily recyclable and/or 2. decrease the use of resources in the production of the product, for example by using recycled materials. These guidelines ensure we consider more sustainable design practices at the very start of the life-cycle of our products. Our trained product & development 3.2 OUR APPROACH TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY MATERIAL QUANTITY IN T PLASTIC GOAL TIMEFRAME Apply the recycled product design to 50% of our new products by 2027/28. Medium-term Apply the design for recycling guidelines to 50% of our new products by 2027/28. Medium-term Expansion of the products in our Green Planet range Continuously Improve and standardize processes surrounding the collection of data for the calculation of our resource use Continuously OUR GOALS “We want to develop products made from materials with an optimal carbon footprint (e.g. minimising the amount of materials used, using the highest possible percentage of recycled materials, renewable raw materials or materials that can be recycled); with the longest possible service life and designed so that customers can reuse them over the longest possible period; which can be repaired and separated at the end of their service life, and with components that can be recycled or reused.” teams assess, in which situation which approach is the best, while ensuring the quality of the product is not compromised. In the future, we aim to steadily increase the number of products designed in line with these guidelines. Additionally, as briefly mentioned in chapter 3.1 we have successfully increased the data quality of our resource use, particularly of the use of materials in our products. We can now assess the use of different types of plastic as well as various other components. 09 05 03 1.624 331 263 688 6 29 684 499 3.160 276 44 1.627 3.980 813 1.372 84 441 725 2.425 Paper Glass Textiles Ceramics Batteries Other materials Cotton Other textiles 30 31
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