What is CE-RISE?

The Circular Economy Resource Information System (CE-RISE) is a EU-funded project aiming to optimise raw material reuse and recovery in electronic products. 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 through blockchain technology to explore the applicability of a Digital Product Passport (DPP) to five electronic items. 

Launch of project to optimise raw material reuse and recovery in electronic products

In January 2023 a consortium composed of leading experts representing the entire value chain of electronic products as well as IT experts, and research institutions focusing on raw materials have commenced an ambitious four-year project to create a data platform that will share detailed information on these products. 

“CE-RISE, aims to increase the lifetime of raw materials by creating an information system that will enable sharing of necessary information among actors in the value chains about the content and composition of products. This will optimise their repair, reuse and recycling the resources they contain,” project coordinator and senior scientist Golnoush Abbasi at NILU explains. “By doing so, it will facilitate an increased autonomy in Europe for key value chains, such as that for critical raw materials.”

Site visit in Zary, Poland

In mid-March, CE-RISE Project partners Vera Susanne Rotter from Technische Universität Berlin, Maxime Furkel, and Patrick Carminati from Lexmark visited a couple of manufacturing lines at SYNCREON in Zary, Poland

The aim of the visit was to explain:

• Why does the company consider itself as a circular economy leader in the imaging industry;
• How they can effectively continue to increase their remanufacturing activities;
• All while creating local jobs and demand for products with a second or even third life.

The visit covered cartridge manufacturing and remanufacturing lines, printers remanufacturing lines as well as the Lexmark Cartridge Collection Program (LCCP) and Lexmark Equipment Collection Program (LECP).

CE-RISE partners met at the third consortium meeting in Brussels

Over 40 participants gathered in Brussels between 8 and 9 June at the third consortium meeting of the project. 

The event kicked off with two intensive workshops led by projects partners. At first, Viessmann guided four different groups through enabling circularity and anticipating Digital Product Passport requirements for different components and actors across the value chain.  

Following a short coffee break, colleagues from UNITAR, TU Berlin and BRGM held an interactive workshop to better understand the CE-RISE RE-criteria (reuse, refurbishment, repair, remanufacturing, recycling) and potential Digital Product Passport requirements.  

The second day continued in a similar theme, diving deeper into the matter of Digital Product Passports with external experts and the CE-RISE Advisory Board.  

Eduard Wagner from Fraunhofer IZM presented CIRPASS, an EU funded project preparing the ground for the gradual piloting and deployment of Digital Product Passports. The project is focussing on developing a roadmap for prototypes in three value chains: electronics, batteries, and textiles. 

CE-RISE Advisory Board Members joined the meeting both online and in person. Both partners and elected experts were able to discuss pivotal aspects of the project groundwork and its eventual direction during the almost two-hour long session moderated by TU Berlin.  

As another guest speaker, DIGITALEUROPE provided an insight into their research and perspective on Digital Product Passports before closing the day with the CE-RISE General Assembly.  

Project partners were bouncing ideas off each other during these two days and we are looking forward to seeing how these conversations will turn into reality in the coming months. 

How a French start-up is recycling Europe’s solar panels

The recycling industry will soon face a relatively new problem by photovoltaic (PV) panels reaching the end of their life. Project partner ROSI Solar, however, has a solution to recover the valuable materials embedded in these panels. The company was interviewed by Euronews about the innovative way it recycles Europe’s photovoltaic panels.

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