Dhrumil Soni
As we strive towards a better world, we work to ensure chemistry’s contributions are realized. Chemistry can help us to understand, monitor, protect and improve the environment around us.
Circularity challenges the current economic model towards a sustainable future
Circular processes contributing to circularity can be grouped into 4 categories, from the most impactful to the least:
1. Reduce by design: reducing the amount of material used, particularly raw material, should be applied as an overall guiding principle from the earliest stages of design of products and services
2. From a user-to-user perspective: Refuse, Reduce and Re-use
3. From a user-to-business intermediary perspective: Repair, Refurbish and Remanufacture
4. From business-to-business: Repurpose and Recycle.
Read more about circularity at UNEP's Building Circularity platform.
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Regional Electronics Study and Circularity Roadmap in the LAC Region: Mapping of Existing Initiatives
Emerging Policy Issues:
Hazardous chemicals in electronics
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Mapping of Stakeholders for the Regional Electronics Study and Circularity Roadmap in the Latin America and The Caribbean
Emerging Policy Issues:
Hazardous chemicals in electronics
Chemicals in products
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Chemicals in electronics
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