Sparking the Circular Economy in Melbourne's Manufacturing Industry 10R CIRCULAR ECONOMY PRACTICES Examples of ‘R’ level R0 Refuse
R1 Reduce Short loops
R2 Resell/ Reuse
R3 Repair
R4 Refurbish Medium loops
R5 Remanufacture
R6 Repurpose
Long loops
R7 Recycle Materials R8 Recover (energy) R9 Re-mine
What practices are you doing at this ‘R’ level (if any)?
• (Re)design processes to monitor and refuse inputs leading to waste • Refuse the use of specific hazardous materials or any virgin material • Redesign products, packaging and logistics to use less materials, with options for circularity • (Re)design/adopt production processes to reduce waste and increase efficiency • “Direct re-use” as economic activity via collectors and retailers, possibly with quality inspections, cleaning and small repairs (commercial and noncommercial); • “Direct re-use” of unsold returns or products with damaged packaging, multiple re-uses of (transport) packaging • “Re-use in fabrication” apply recycled materials • Send recollected products to our own repair centers, to manufacturer-controlled, or to third party repair centers; • Distinguish ‘planned repair’ as part of a longer lasting maintenance plan from ‘ad-hoc’ repairs • Enable easy repairing • Overall structure of large multi-component product remains intact, while many components are replaced or repaired, resulting in an overall ‘upgrade’ of quality of product • Enable easy refurbishment • Full structure of a multi-component product is disassembled, checked, cleaned and when necessary, replaced or repaired in an industrial process, recycled parts may be used expected retained quality more tempered: “up to original state, like new” • Enable easy remanufacture • Reusing discarded goods or components adapted for another function • Enable easy repurpose of discarded goods • Processing of mixed streams of postconsumer products or post-producer waste streams using expensive technological equipment, including shredding, melting and other processes to capture (nearly) pure materials • Apply recycled materials • Capturing energy embodied in waste, linking it to incineration in combination with producing energy, distilled water or use of biomass • Retrieval of materials at end-of-life “cannibalization”, hi-tech landfill mining or urban mining
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Sparking the Circular Economy in Melbourne's Manufacturing Industry CIRCULAR ECONOMY MATURITY On each row, select the cell (1-5) that best represents your business 1 Lack of knowledge about the assumptions of circular economy and business models dedicated to it Low environmental awareness
2 Low level of knowledge about circular economy and business models
3 Awareness of the impact on the environment and circular economy
4 Familiarity with the rules of circular economy
5 Circular business model implemented
Environmental impact awareness
Defined processes for the area of environmental activities
The causes of process deviations are eliminated
MONITORING ENVIRONEMNTAL IMPACTS
Failure to limit the negative impact on the environment
Monitoring environmental indicators
Qualified employees for environmental protection
Familiarity with the rules of circular economy
ENVIRONEMTNAL MANAGEMENT PROCESSES IMPLEMENTED
No environmental management processes
Most of the processes for environmental activities are identified and defined
Have an environmental management system (formal or not)
REASONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES IMPLEMENTED
Environmental activities undertaken for pragmatic reasons
Pragmatism in activities limiting negative impact on the environment
Pragmatic and altruistic reasons for limiting environmental impacts
Formalized environmental management system process quality measures are built into the enterprise’s decision-making system Work on redesigning the business model towards circular economy
Improvement of the organization through process monitoring in terms of possible improvements Raising awareness of the company’s stakeholders when it comes to ecology Formalized environmental management system
CIRCULAR ECONOMY KNOWLEDGE AND IMPLEMENTATION AWARENESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
TOTALS (how many selected in each column)
A ciricular economy business
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Sparking the Circular Economy in Melbourne's Manufacturing Industry BASIC ASSESSMENT OF YOUR TOP-FOUR SUPPLIERS – FOR R0 REFUSE Supplier
What they supply
Volume of Supply
(components or materials)
FOR EXAMPLE:
Textiles
3,000m per annum
Environmental Certification or other Information of credentials Supplies (e.g., (e.g., 50% ISO9001/ISO14001) recycled content, made in Australia)
Are there reuserecyclable supply options
Natural dyes only
Recycled textiles available
NA
Alka’s Fabric Ltd.
(e.g., used timber, rather than virgin wood)
1. 2. 3. 4.
BASIC ASSESSMENT OF YOUR TOP-FOUR OPERATIONAL WASTE STREAMS – FOR R1 REDUCE Waste stream Textiles
How much and how regularly 300kg per month
What's done with it Landfill
How much does it cost $95 per month
1. 2. 3. 4.
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