iNEMI's Value Recovery from Used Electronics project participants published a report describing how the project successfully used end-of-life hard disk drives to demonstrate a viable process toward the development of a multi-stakeholder circular economy. Project activities focused on construction of a set of decision trees to identify the options at each step in the value recovery chain in the context of a circular economy and what information each of the stakeholders needs to pursue higher value recovery along a given pathway; development of economic models, lifecycle assessments and logistics models to determine which value recovery options generate the highest value by type and size of drive. These models provide the basis for business decision-making by the stakeholders, both individually and collectively, as part of supply chains; demonstration projects to prove the efficacy of major critical-to-market circular economy pathways.
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