Improving the design of products is a pre-condition to transition towards a circular economy. Improving the design of products is a pre-condition to transition towards a circular economy. As it has already been highlighted in the report released by the European RecyclingIndustries’ Confederation (EuRIC) named “Top 5 Priorities of the Recycling Industry for thePeriod 2019 -2024”, 80% of products’ environmental impact are determined at a design stage.

Although the above-mentioned fact is also stated in the Circular Economy Action Plan 2.0 (CEAP), the vast majority of products placed on the EU market – and not only – are still designed without any consideration for their end-of-life stage. Design for circularity is therefore of an outmost importance to move towards a more circular economy and needs to be extended to all products’ categories, including mobile phones and tablets.

EuRIC thus fully supports the necessary Designing Mobile Phones and Tablets to be Sustainable Legislative Initiative to keep the already exploited resources in the market for as long as possible by connecting the dots between the design and end-of-life (EoL) phase of products.

Read the top priorities identified by EuRIC in the linked document.