Definitions of circularity practices filters
Sustainable procurement
Integrate resource efficiency criteria into the supplier selection process by limiting waste and environmental impact for renewable and non-renewable resources.
Innovative collection and sorting
Integration of the deployment of innovative technical solutions for collection and sorting.
Eco-design
Integration of a methodical approach that takes into consideration environmental aspects from the design and development of products (goods and services) with the objective of reducing negative environmental impacts throughout their life cycle.
Maintenance, repair and reconditioning
The application of maintenance, repair or reconditioning/refurbishment of an asset extends the life of the asset.
Reverse Logistics
Implementation of a set of practices and processes to manage the return of products from the point of sale to the manufacturer for repair, re-manufacturing or recycling.
New business models
Implementation, application of a business model which is innovative and which, by its nature, works to limit the waste of resources and to increase the efficiency at all stages of the economy of the products (production, consumption and treatment of waste).
Optimization of operations
Integration of optimization practices of industrial production processes, logistics, etc. aimed at improving efficiency and optimizing raw materials, technological and financial resources.
Recycling
Reintegration of resources (including organic ones) into the economic circuit by transforming them into new raw materials.
Reuse and reutilisation
Integration of operations by which substances, materials or products are used again, possibly after inspection, cleaning or repair, for a use identical to that for which they were designed.
Remanufacturing
Integration of industrial processes consisting of extending the life of components from certain used products (broken down, end of life, obsolete or in a state of waste) by putting it in a state, a level of performance and conditions of guarantees identical or superior to its original state in order to reuse them in the manufacture of these same products.
Industrial Symbiosis
Integration, in a (re)use approach, mainly within industrial sectors, of by-products (materials, energy, water, logistics) from another company or another sector in the form of synergies (exchanges), aiming to optimize them.
Valuation
An initiative that does not constitute disposal and that aims to obtain useful products or energy from residual materials.