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. 

CE-RISE annual event at Electronics Goes Green 2024

The first annual event of the project, gathering nearly 80 participants both online and in person, took place at Electronics Goes Green on 17 June. 

Professionals from around the world headed to Berlin and joined our workshop focussing on how to optimise REuse, REpair, REcycling, REmanufacturing and REcovery of valuable resources in electronic products using Digital Product Passport. 

As our partners from the entire value chain presented their respective views and learnings from CE-RISE to date, participants of the conference were eager to find answers to many of their questions concerning the implementation of the Digital Product Passport: 

• How will the findings of CE-RISE be implemented after the project? 
• How difficult is it to collect relevant data (i.e. on components)? 
• How compliance between different markets be assured for a manufacturer? 
• Which new business models can be supported by the implementation of the DPP? 
• How repair could be increased thanks to DPP?  
• With discussions continuing in coffee break and the networking evening, the project’s first official event proved to be a successful conversation starter.  

Many of the valuable audience inputs will help the consortium shaping further work on CE-RISE, but one of the main findings for all was that DPP can only be functional if implemented together with new business models to create a fully circular eco-system. 

CE-RISE webinar on standardisation

Join our interactive workshop organised by TU Berlin, UNITAR, and the WEEE Forum on 28 June 2024! 

Participants will gain an understanding of the various protocols involved, explore different techniques for effective implementation, and learn about diverse approaches to measuring the so called RE-Criteria (reusability, repairability, repurposability, refurbishability, remanufacturability, and recyclability) in various contexts and across the value chain.

Our session is designed to enhance knowledge and skills, enabling the application of RE-Criteria effectively.

In the course of the workshop we will facilitate an open discussion about norms, standards, labels and certificates applied throughout the value chain for the assessment and verification of product circularity before entering a systematic process for their assessment and evaluation.

Exclusive project updates

Results of our first stakeholder consultation

Project partners from UNITAR have finalised a stakeholder consultation identifying DPP initiatives, and industry and consumers' requirements concerning DPP. Following the collection and filtering of legal documents, standards, labels, and certifications addressing RE-Criteria as well as socio-economic, and environmental (SEE) parameters, the analysis of their implementation by the industry is currently being finalised. 

Dataset inventory

Universiteit Leiden and Empa have equally made an inventory of available public datasets that can be used to calculate the environmental footprints of pilot products. They are now occupied with improving the CE-RISE socio-economic and environmental impacts background dataset and are working on a procedure to calculate such impacts for pilot products from information in the DPP.

CE-RISE Information System

NILU alongside its contributing partners from Circularise, University of Oslo and ANSYS has been finalising the architecture description of the CE-RISE Information System. The internal digital infrastructure (code repositories, servers, etc.) for the development phase of the Information System has been already set up. Together with Circularise, the project's DPP service provider, and other CE-RISE partners they are in the exciting process of implementing a first version of the CE-RISE DPP data scheme.

We look forward to the next steps in the project! 

Exclusive stakeholder news

Consortium meeting at Leiden University

CE-RISE partners headed to the picturesque university town of Leiden in early June for the project’s third in-person consortium meeting.  

The first day of the meeting covered progress over the last six months and served as the perfect opportunity to discuss end-user proposals for functionality and the CE-RISE Information System’s modules and features including RE-Indicators and LCA method(s).  
 
For the evening networking, our partners “took the plunge” and discovered Leiden’s beautiful canals by boat. 
 
Wrapping up our time together, on the second day the consortium collectively focused on rehearsing and planning for the annual event taking place at Electronics Goes Green all the while contemplating solutions for different actors in the value chain that may be efficiently implemented in the project.  

Taking advantage of the interactive nature of in-person meetings, technical partners extended their stay to: 

• tackle the harmonisation of needs and guidelines in the project;  
• take a hands-on approach to actualising the CE-RISE conceptual framework;  
• accelerate the preparations for the deployment of DPP across industry partners;  
• and drill down on calculation methods for Product Environmental Footprints (PEFs) and RE/Socio Economic Environmental (SEE) impacts.  

A special thank you to Leiden University for hosting the meeting!  

What's news in the DPP & Circular Economy sector?

Learn more from our experts sharing their knowledge on a regular basis on our website:

• Digital Product Passports as Catalyst of Circular Business Models
• Prioritising Health and Safety in Repair: Integrating Digital Product Passports (DPP)
• Cradle to Grave? The Impact of Digital Product Passports on E-Waste Management
• Influencing Consumer Habits for a More Sustainable Future
• How to Create a Digital Product Passport?
• Information Regarding Permanent Magnets to Sit in Digital Product Passport
• Breaking Silos by Developing a Shared Vocabulary
• DPP Implementation: Expectations and Challenges of the Electrical and Electronics Value Chain
• Circular Economy of Raw Materials from PV Waste to PV and Other Industries
• The Role of Scientific Dissemination in Advancing the Circular Economy
• Enhancing Transparency and Sustainability in the Refurbishing of ICT Devices with Digital Product Passport
• The Importance of Creating New Business Models Aligned with the Circular Economy
• Increasing Circularity in the ICT Value Chain
• Digital Passport for Critical Raw Materials: A Breakthrough in the Energy Transition
• The Life Cycle of Metals in the Economy and its Associated Environmental Impacts
• How CE-RISE Will Support the European Green Deal
• The Impact of the Digital Product Passport on WEEE Repair and Recycling Operations
• The Printer Cartridge Lifecycle and Digital Product Passport Touchpoints
• How Digital Product Passports and RE-Strategies Will Guide the Sustainable Transition

CE-RISE joins International E-Waste Day 2024

CE-RISE joins International E-Waste Day (IEWD), a global initiative organised by project partner WEEE Forum. This year's theme is focussing on unused electronics that people store in their homes without realising that these items contain valuable materials that could gain a new life. 

E-waste includes anything with a plug, cable, or battery, but the most often "forgotten" items are small electronics: old mobile phones, cables, USB keys, card readers, game consoles, and other devices that are often kept out of sight in drawers.

This year's edition aims to inspire people to declutter their homes of unused or broken devices and either donate them for reuse/refurbishment or take them to the nearest collection point for recycling. By doing so, everyone can contribute to pollution reduction, resource conservation, and energy and CO2 savings.

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