23.5.2022
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
L 144/63
Recovery of bottom ash or slag shall be included in the R2 value (recycling output rate) of the original product/ material.
Their treatment is within the ErecEoL.
Landfilling and incineration with energy recovery Whenever a process, such as landfilling with energy recovery or municipal solid waste incineration with energy recovery, leads to energy recovery, it shall be modelled under the ‘energy’ part in Equation 3 (CFF).
The credit is calculated based on the amount of output energy that is used outside the process.
Municipal solid waste Part C of Annex II contains default values per country that shall be used to quantify the share going to landfilling and the share going to incineration unless supply-chain specific values are available.
Compost and anaerobic digestion/ sewage treatment Compost, including digestate coming out of the anaerobic digestion, shall be treated in the ‘material’ part (Equation 3) like recycling with A = 0.5.
The energy part of the anaerobic digestion shall be treated as a normal process of energy recovery under the ‘energy’ part of Equation 3 (CFF).
Waste materials used as fuel When waste material is used as a fuel (e.g. waste plastic used as fuel in cement kilns), it shall be treated as an energy recovery process under the ‘energy’ part of Equation 3 (CFF).
Modelling complex products When considering complex products (e.g. printed wiring boards) with complex EoL management, the default datasets for EoL treatment processes may already implement the CFF.
The default values of the parameters shall refer to the ones in Part C of Annex II and shall be available as metadata information in the dataset.
The bill of material (BoM) should be taken as a starting point for calculations if no default data is available.
Reuse and refurbishment If the reuse/refurbishment of a product results in a product with different product specifications (providing another function), this shall be considered as part of the CFF, as a form of recycling.
Old parts that were changed during refurbishment shall be modelled under the CFF.
In this case, reuse/refurbishment activities fall under the ErecEoL parameter, while the alternative function provided (or the avoided production of parts or components) falls under the E*v parameter.
4.4.9.
E x t e n d e d p r o d u c t l i f e ti m e Extending a product’s lifetime due to reuse or refurbishment may result in the following. 1.
A product with the original product specifications (providing the same function).
In this situation, the product lifetime is extended to a product with the original product specifications (providing the same function) and shall be included in the FU and reference flow.
The user of the PEF method shall describe how reuse or refurbishment is included in calculating the reference flow and the full life-cycle model, taking into account the ‘how long’ of the FU. 2.
A product with different product specifications (providing another function).
This shall be considered as part of the CFF, as a form of recycling (see Section 4.4.8.13.
How to apply the formula to intermediate products (cradle-to-gate studies)).
Also, old parts that have been changed during refurbishment shall be modelled under the CFF.