An Introduction to Circular Procurement and best practices from the REBus project.
REBus, an EU Life+ funded partnership project, is pioneering and testing a methodology that enables companies to transform their strategies to profitable, resilient and more resource efficient business models (REBMs).
Dr. Mervyn Jones, Sustainable Global Resources
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Towards a Circular Economy model for Procurement
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Towards a Circular Economy model
for Procurement
Mervyn Jones, SGR Ltd UK
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Procurement
Systems
Suppliers
Products
Circular
Business
Models
take
use
dispose
make
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
DEMAND
PULL
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BENEFITS OF A CIRCULAR
EU ECONOMY
€324 billion www.rebus.eu
The Netherlands
€7,3 billion
54,000 jobs
Sources: EU, Ellen McArthur Foundation, Club of Rome, TNO, WRAP
Sweden
3% trade
balance
15,000 jobs
United Kingdom
~€30 billion
200,000 jobs
Denmark
GDP 0.8–1.4%
7,000-13,000 jobs
Finland
GDP 0.33-0.66%
15,000 jobs
France
GDP 0.33-0.66%
100,000 jobs
Spain
GDP 0.33-0.66%
100,000 jobs
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Collections
& sorting
De-risk &
incentivise
investment
Business
support
Financial
mechanisms
Evidence
base
Specifications
& Standards
SUPPLY DEMAND
Resource Efficient
Business Models
Informed choice
purchase and disposal
Encouraging
markets for 2ndary
materials
Technology
Quality
Waste
prevention
Procurement
Design for
circularity
CIRCULAR MARKETS
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WASTE HIERARCHY &
PROCUREMENT HIERARCHY
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HIERARCHY OF ACTIONS
FOR PROCUREMENT
Using assets and resources
more efficiently, e.g.:
Purchasing
Specifications, for
example buildings -
•sourcing, e.g. minimise
additives, recycled
content
•lower in-use impacts,
e.g. carbon impacts,
asset management
•Disposal options e.g.
take-back
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CIRCULAR PROCUREMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
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ENCOURAGING CIRCULAR
PRODUCTS
• Best Price-Quality Ratio (BPQR):
– Price and/or cost
– plus Other Criteria, (including qualitative, environmental and/or social
aspects, linked to the subject matter of the public contract in question).
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CIRCULAR BUSINESS MODELS
• Performance as a priority
• Choice - Dutch IMSA has identified 19 different alternatives to
linear model
• Grouped into 6 themes:
– short cycle
– long cycle
– cascades
– pure cycles
– dematerialisation e.g. PSS
– on demand
• Restorative and regenerative models have major carbon &
climate change benefits
10. CATERING & FOOD WASTE
Circular principles & benefits
•Waste prevention - storage &
preparation
•Consumers – plate waste
•Food reuse – human & animal
•Nutritional diets
•Nutrient recovery – composting
•Carbon reduction & energy recovery
• Waste prevention, UK Public
sector catering
• Rijkswaterstaat, Netherlands -
food waste
• Anaerobic digestion
• EU Innocat project – Ghent, Torino
11. ICT & ELECTRICALS
Circular principles & benefits
•Design for repair & modularity
•Recycled content – laptop casings & parts
•REBMs – leasing versus ownership
•Lifetime optimisation
•End of Life – collection & resource security
•CO2 reduction
• Utrecht, Netherlands – IT take-back;
secure reuse
• Schiphol Airport, Netherlands –
lighting as a service
• BZK, Netherlands – CP of IT: e-
recovery, IT-donations
• UK UniGreenScheme - Lab
equipment re-sale and re-use
12. FURNITURE
• ProRail, Netherlands – furniture and
carpeting
• Utrecht MC, Netherlands – REBM options
• London, UK – office mobile asset
management
• Cambridge NHT, UK – hospital beds
• Perth DC, Scotland – desk reuse
Circular principles & benefits:
•Resource efficient design - materials
•Recycled content - materials
•Furniture as a service – economic
benefits
•Lifetime optimisation - carbon
•Reuse opportunities - jobs
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REDUCING IMPACT OF
PROCUREMENT
Impact category Most significant service Impact of most
significant service as
% of total impact
Key resource
efficiency action in
the most significant
service
Materials
consumed
Catering
(supply of food)
50% Reduce avoidable food
waste
Waste produced Furniture
(workspace furniture)
50% Product reuse
Energy and CO2
in-use
Heating, ventilation and air
conditioning
(particularly heating)
70% Upgrading and
refurbishment of
equipment
Embodied CO2
emissions
ICT equipment 45% Extending lifespan of
equipment
Water use Washrooms and kitchens 90% Reducing mains water
use (e.g. flow
regulators)
Cost ICT equipment 30% Extending equipment
lifespans
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CORE LEARNING
• Internal collaboration – circular products need
circular clients
• Market engagement – communicate vision
and timescales to de-risk R&D and innovation
• MEAT – (BPQR & LCC) think of impacts in use
and at end of use as well as sourcing
• Collaboration – partnership working
• Significant process and financial barriers so
prioritise actions and efforts to develop quick
wins
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THANK YOU
Mervyn Jones, SGR Ltd, UK
Hinweis der Redaktion
Our circular economy definition is: A circular economy is an alternative to a traditional linear economy (make, use, dispose) in which we keep resources in use for as long as possible, extract the maximum value from them whilst in use, then recover and regenerate products and materials at the end of each service life.
Which means…Driving the sustainable use of resources. Resources such as materials, energy and water and resource efficiency – using the least possible resource for the same output – and applies to all sectors from extraction, design and production of goods, retail, distribution, use and disposal. Critical to circular economy is the ability to avoid disposal of resources, and to remanufacture and re-use goods, and recycle and recover materials.
Adopting a circular approach will help deliver strategic goals through:
Waste prevention (e.g. food)
Influencing production (e.g. design)
Influencing consumption (& procurement)
Influencing disposal (e.g. collection)
Market development (e.g. re-use and recycling)
In some ways, the essence of a circular economy lies in economic transactions that focus on performance rather than ownership.
IMSA has integrated existing knowledge of circular economy to produce a list containing 19 circular business models in six categories4. These models will develop as a result of growing experience and new possibilities. As a procurer, it’s important to understand these business models and the differences between them, because they represent options for suppliers to produce and deliver their goods and services in a circular way. This can only happen if the procurer creates the conditions for a supplier to present his bid in such a way. In other words, the more functional a tender is formulated, the more options are available for suppliers to offer their goods and services using a circular business model.
Consumption strategy options through public procurement (including lifetime optimisation, goods to services /PSS, reuse/restorative, and reducing food waste have major carbon impact reduction potential.
All sections of the furniture production value chain are present in the EU with high quality raw materials and components suppliers. However, the leading EU furniture markets all depend heavily on imports.
Through more circular procurement of office equipment and redeployment of existing assets, there is an estimated savings €6-7 million per year across the Dutch government estate. Additional savings in the short and medium term through lifetime extension (4 to 8 year extension is feasible) creates potential savings of €1.2-4 million per year. Combined, this can lead to a government-wide savings of €8-11 million per year in the Netherlands.
Dutch circular category plan for furniture identifies 6 key cycles for circular office furniture:
maintain – using preventative maintenance to maximise product lifetime, e.g. a chair remains a chair;
repair – corrective maintenance , e.g. a chair remains a chair;
reuse – redistributing products through a change in ownership, e.g. a chair remains a chair;
refurbish – remanufacturing the product to optimise lifetime, e.g. by changing appearance of a chair through re-upholstering to extend ‘psychological’ service life, or resizing desks;
re-purpose – change functionality of the product, e.g. a desk becomes a table; and,
recycle – recovering the value of components and materials for feedstock as secondary materials in new products.