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ESRS disclosure: ESRS E5 \ DR E5-2 \ Paragraph 20d
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- Provide a detailed description of the application of circular business practices within your organization. Specifically, outline any actions and resources dedicated to the following areas: (i) value retention actions, including maintenance, repair, refurbishing, remanufacturing, component harvesting, upgrading, reverse logistics, closed loop systems, and second-hand retailing; (ii) value maximisation actions, such as product-service systems and collaborative and sharing economy business models; (iii) end-of-life actions, including recycling, upcycling, and extended producer responsibility; and (iv) systems efficiency actions, such as industrial symbiosis. Ensure that your response aligns with the requirements set forth in Disclosure Requirement E5-2 and ESRS 2 MDR-A.
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Question Id: E5-2_04
In 2024, we completed the decommissioning of our onshore wind farm Owenreagh 1 in Northern Ireland, which had been in operation since 1997 and consisted of 10 wind turbines with a total capacity of 5 MW. We did so in collaboration with Plaswire, with whom we entered into a partnership in 2023. Plaswire enables the recycling of wind blades, as they specialise in the shredding, granulating, and re-moulding required to turn the blade material into, for example, durable polymer. Durable polymer is typically used in the construction industry, and as a result, some of the retired blades may end up being used to produce road marking poles for some of our new onshore wind farms in Ireland, replacing the use of virgin plastics in our own projects. Similarly, we work with the US solar recycling company SOLARCYCLE on the treatment of defective and retired solar panels. With the installation of various solar assets in the US in 2024, we have, where necessary, sent damaged panels to SOLARCYCLE for recycling, demonstrating our ambition to recycle retired solar panels. Our collaborations with Plaswire and SOLARCYCLE are examples of how we engage with partners on our material resource-related impacts. Over the past few years, we have successfully carried out several small-scale recycling pilots in the US and the UK and will continue to leverage retired blades and panels from our assets to help accelerate the maturation of promising, innovative, recycling technologies and solutions in our markets going forward.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 60%
- Provide the weight, in both absolute value and percentage, of secondary reused or recycled components, secondary intermediary products, and secondary materials utilized in the manufacturing of your undertaking's products and services, including packaging, during the reporting period, as part of the assessment of resource inflows as a material sustainability matter.
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Question Id: E5-4_05
Technical materials, scrap steel used in steel production: In absolute value: 59,200 - 103,700 tonnes; In percentage: 20 - 35%
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 50%