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A Digital Product Passport for Critical Raw Materials Reuse and Recycling

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  • Rembrandt H. E. M. Koppelaar

    (EcoWise Ekodenge Ltd., 8 Kean Street, London WC2B 4AS, UK)

  • Sreenivaasa Pamidi

    (EcoWise Ekodenge Ltd., 8 Kean Street, London WC2B 4AS, UK)

  • Enikő Hajósi

    (EcoWise Ekodenge Ltd., 8 Kean Street, London WC2B 4AS, UK)

  • Lucia Herreras

    (WEEE Forum a.i.s.b.l., Boulevard Auguste Reyerslaan 80, B-1030 Brussels, Belgium)

  • Pascal Leroy

    (WEEE Forum a.i.s.b.l., Boulevard Auguste Reyerslaan 80, B-1030 Brussels, Belgium)

  • Ha-Young Jung

    (EcoWise Ekodenge Ltd., 8 Kean Street, London WC2B 4AS, UK)

  • Amba Concheso

    (DSS+, 70 Gracechurch Street, London EC3V 0XL, UK)

  • Radha Daniel

    (DSS+, 70 Gracechurch Street, London EC3V 0XL, UK)

  • Fernando B. Francisco

    (CARTIF Technology Centre, Parque Tecnológico de Boecillo, 205 Boecillo, 47151 Valladolid, Spain)

  • Cristina Parrado

    (CARTIF Technology Centre, Parque Tecnológico de Boecillo, 205 Boecillo, 47151 Valladolid, Spain)

  • Siro Dell’Ambrogio

    (SUPSI DTI, La Santa 1 Street, 6962 Viganello, Switzerland)

  • Fabiana Guggiari

    (SUPSI DTI, La Santa 1 Street, 6962 Viganello, Switzerland)

  • Deborah Leone

    (SUPSI DTI, La Santa 1 Street, 6962 Viganello, Switzerland)

  • Alessandro Fontana

    (SUPSI DTI, La Santa 1 Street, 6962 Viganello, Switzerland)

Abstract

The reuse and recycling of critical raw materials is limited, as waste electrical and electronic recycling focuses on base and precious metals, and device component reuse is in its infancy. To help to address this issue this paper provides the conceptual design of a Digital Product Passport based circular supply management system. To enable the recovery of critical raw materials at component and material levels for reuse and recycling. The works include an assessment of existing critical raw materials information management and an information needs identification survey, with 10 manufacturers, producer responsibility organisations, collectors and recyclers. The needs were used to generate 14 key product information management processes and exchanges that when implemented form a Digital Product Passport based circular supply management system. Information managed via a physical-digital linkage through individual product tags includes product registrations, materials declarations, life cycle status updates, the sorting of products at collection points based on critical raw material contents, and flagging of products for critical raw materials component extraction. A dataspace-based IT systems architecture is proposed for the implementation of the supply management system taking into account global and European information standards. Finally, key challenges to implement such an IT architecture are discussed.

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  • Rembrandt H. E. M. Koppelaar & Sreenivaasa Pamidi & Enikő Hajósi & Lucia Herreras & Pascal Leroy & Ha-Young Jung & Amba Concheso & Radha Daniel & Fernando B. Francisco & Cristina Parrado & Siro Dell’A, 2023. "A Digital Product Passport for Critical Raw Materials Reuse and Recycling," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(2), pages 1-21, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:2:p:1405-:d:1032651
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