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This publication is a technical report to target the topic of circular economy in the switchgear business based on a review of methods defined in CEN CENELEC JTC10 horizontal standards which can be applied as guidance considering EN 455xx series of standards. This publication covers material efficiency for circular economy areas, focusing on circular design and material efficiency aspects and their assessment. This aim to reduce the environmental footprint, especially the GHG emissions, resource consumption and waste generation. This document especially deals with concepts and measures that increases the circularity of a high-voltage switchgear controlgear and material that is used in it such as: • use of secondary raw materials and reuse product or components in product; • design for high durability and lifetime extension, recyclability, easy disassembly and adaptability of product; • end of life treatment that prioritises recycling over disposal;
Circularity will be a key topic for the next years – narrowing, slowing and closing the cycle is an urgent need. It is important out of sustainability considerations to improve product durability, reliability, repairability, upgradability, reusability and recyclability, improve possibilities for the refurbishment and maintenance of products, address the presence of hazardous chemicals in products, increase the energy and resource efficiency of products, including with regard to the possibility of recovery of strategic and critical raw materials, reduce their expected generation of waste and increase the recycled content in products, while ensuring their performance and safety, enabling remanufacturing and high-quality recycling and reducing carbon and environmental footprints (following ESPR text). Aspects and impacts out of these requirements are very product specific and therefore it is necessary to make this deep dive related to circular Economy. Then it will be possible to define in standard how narrowing, slowing and closing the cycle is applied to high-voltage switchgear and controlgear.
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