This document establishes general principles for:
This document also considers:
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The ability to access or remove certain components,
assemblies, materials or substances from products to facilitate
their extraction at the end-of-life for ease of treatment,
recycling and other recovery operations;
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The recyclability of critical raw materials (CRMs).
This document defines parameters which are applicable for the
development of product or product-group standards in order to
calculate recyclability/recoverability rates. This document serves
as a method for writing product or product-group standards, rather
than being directly applied. Additional information and
requirements not provided in this document will be necessary for
product or product-group standards.
This document is not applicable to generate publicly available
product information and compare products in absence of product
standards based on this document.
Although this document can be used for a product or
product-group, for the sake of a better readability only “product”
is used throughout the rest of the document.