Project description
A digital passport for critical raw materials
Demand for critical raw materials is growing faster than supply, and it is becoming harder for EU industries to adopt changes towards green and sustainable technologies. One solution is to optimise the reuse of secondary raw materials across value chains. In this context, the EU-funded CE-RISE project will design and test an integrated framework to effectively reuse, recover and recycle materials. The project will define criteria to assess reusable products and embedded components. Moreover, it will collect and store information about the reuse criteria and material composition of products in a digital product passport, integrating it with information on the environmental footprint of products and the socio-economic and environmental impacts of reuse, recovery and recycling processes.
Objective
The rising demand and limited supply of critical raw materials (CRMs) impair the ability to rapidly adopt technological change toward green and sustainable technologies, which directly affect the resilience of EU industries seeking to achieve Green Deal objectives for an equitable, zero-emission, and digitalized Europe. In response to these challenges, the European Commission aims to minimize the loss of secondary raw materials (SRM) and optimize their reuse across value chains. CE-RISE will develop and pilot an integrated framework and an ensuing resource information system to identify optimal solutions for the effective reuse, recovery, and/or recycling of materials by (a) defining a set of criteria (RE criteria) to evaluate the extent to which products and embedded components can be reused, repaired, refurbished and/or recycled; (b) incorporating information on RE criteria and material composition of products into the Digital product passport (DPP) to enable traceability of materials in the supply chain; (c) integrating DPP with information on the environmental footprint of products (PEF), socio-economic and environmental (SEE) impacts of RE processes; (d) enabling confidential and anonymized information sharing among actors throughout value chains; (e) providing open-access software application to disseminate information on the assessment of RE criteria, PEF and SEE impacts of products to all stakeholders including consumers and policymakers. The results will be piloted on four case studies.
CE-RISE will contribute to bridging the digital divide in society by supplying affordable second-hand ICT devices, and supporting access to digital education and job opportunities. Ultimately, CE-RISE will foster a dynamic ecosystem geared toward prolonging the use of materials in the economy and stimulating circular business models to reduce waste generation while optimizing the reuse of SRMs.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringmining and mineral processing
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applications
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1202 GENEVA
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2311 EZ Leiden
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2595 AN Den Haag
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42107 Wuppertal
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1030 Bruxelles / Brussel
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45060 Orleans
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2317 Oplotnica
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0313 Oslo
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97234 Reichenberg
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1095 Budapest
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19300 ASPROPIRGOS
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38000 Grenoble
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W91 HH2C Kildare
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10623 Berlin
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20161 MILANO
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4841 Arendel
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4836 Arendal
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0278 OSLO
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4550 Farsund
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4606 Kristiansand
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0283 Oslo
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35108 Allendorf
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Partners (4)
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8600 Dubendorf
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1215 Geneve
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S1 2JE SHEFFIELD
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BL9 7BR Bury
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