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MANUFACTURER - OVIA
The European Union (EU) estimates that member states produce more than 2.2 billion tonnes of total waste each year. Electronic waste has increased 47% whilst the population has only grown by 9% in the same time span (2010–2018) and this is unsustainable. The current model of product development is linear; that is, raw materials – design – production – distribution – consumption – collection Creating a circular economy in the lighting industry DAN HOPE, SALES DIRECTOR AT OVIA IRELAND, PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM 66 (TM66)…
- waste management/landfill or can be simplified to ‘Take, Make, Use, Shred/ Landfill’. It is a model which has raised the amount of electronic waste to unsustainable levels. TM66 ‘Creating a circular economy in the lighting industry’ published by CIBSE (Charted Institute of Building Service Engineers) sets out what designing and manufacturing to comply with circular economy principles entails and includes a checklist, a method of assessing a product’s circular economy performance and real-world examples of good practice. TM66 provides practical guidance to all elements of the lighting industry, including clients, manufacturers, specifiers, wholesalers and designers in how they might better take account of all the factors which impact upon the use, re-use and re-make of lighting products. Circular economy The circular economy is a model of production and consumption which places the emphasis on sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products for as long as possible. To ensure that any lighting product
follows the circular economy model, designers must purposefully design products which meet users’ needs whilst operating a system whereby resources, manufacturing, distribution, use and re-use of components are given due account in the design of the product. Circular economy assessment method (CEAM) This method uses two spreadsheets (make and specify), authored and developed by industry specialists (including the Lighting Industry Association) and are used to enable manufacturers and specifiers to assess their lighting products and develop their systems as they work to align with the circular economy over time. Legislation, standards and the need for manufacturers to be able to design, make and sell in the UK and into the wider European and world markets, will force designers, specifiers and manufacturers to positively engage with the circular economy. The use of TM66 and CEAM is a useful way in which businesses can assess where they are in terms of their direction of travel towards products being designed for use, re-use and re-making.
THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY MODEL: less raw material, less waste, fewer emissions
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