L 144/248
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
23.5.2022
Figure 4 Point of substitution at level 1 and level 2
Figure 4 is a schematic representation of a generic situation (flows are 100% primary and 100% secondary).
In practice in some situations, more than one point of substitution may be identified at different steps in the value chain, as represented in Figure 5, where e.g. scrap of two different qualities is processed at different steps.
Figure 5 Example of point of substitutions at different steps in the value chain.
4.4.8.5.
T h e q u a l i t y ra t i o s : Q s i n / Q p a n d Q s o u t / Q p Two quality ratios are used in the CFF, to take into account the quality of both the ingoing and the outgoing recycled materials: Qsin/Qp and Qsout/Qp.
Two different cases are distinguished: (a) If Ev=E*v, the two quality ratios are needed: Qsin/Qp associated to the recycled content, and Qsout/Qp associated to recyclability at EoL.
The quality factors are there to capture the downcycling of a material compared to the original primary material and, in some cases, may capture the effect of multiple recycling loops.