A regenerative industry is possible!

Faced with fears of the exhaustion of reserves, the alarm bells are going off and calls are multiplying in favor ofa new economic model. Some companies are committed to preserving precious natural resources, and finding innovative ways to reuse products and components.

In this context, the Government is investing massively in supporting the industrial sector in order to make it integrate the issues of preserving the environment and biodiversity.

The objective is to build a more solid and less carbon-intensive economy.

To meet this dual objective, the circular economy remains the appropriate response.

The success of this quest towards a regenerative industry raises new questions to which we will answer: Can an industrial system be “ regenerator » ? Is reuse the messiah of the environment?

Reuse: sharing a heritage

Reuse and recycling are not new trends, they have been practiced since the dawn of time by all populations around the world with varying degrees of intervention.

Reuse saves the energy needed to manufacture a new object or recycle an object. By applying it to components and equipment, it allows potential waste to be transformed into new materials.

Today, industrialists are succeeding in creating products based 100% on recycled materials, infinitely recyclable. Others provide cheaper and fluctuating spare parts or recycled materials.

Reuse allows you to reuse material by giving it a new family. Preserving this material means keeping its memory which must remain anchored after its reuse. In addition to the economic and ecological side, the material has heritage value, a common history.

The reuse of materials must be distinguished from recycling because it induces reuse without modification of their initial use or transformation of material. As for recycling, it is becoming more and more denounced and rejected because recycling amounts to under-cycling!
This practice decreases the quality of materials over time.

Faced with a society that is constantly renewing its identity and undergoing rapid changes, we must rethink a new model of responsible consumption and production. The circular economy responds to this problem by adopting a system of cooperation between the actors of the territory in question.

In France, several companies already use this model to produce fairly.

However, reuse always suffers from preconceived opinions who consider second-hand materials waste while the amount of like-new equipment sent to landfill constitutes a huge waste.

Reuse means preserving natural resources and offering a second life to materials deemed “useless”. It is an effective way to preserve the environment by limiting waste and carbon footprints..

Every time we throw away a material, there are two devastating consequences on the planet:

• On the one hand, the exhaustion of materials;

• on the other, the increase in quantities of waste.

Reuse thus presents a double environmental added value:

• preservation of natural resources;

• the reduction in the volume of waste.

Reuse as a lever for transition to the circular economy

The health crisis has highlighted the fragility of the French industrial fabric, which is generally based on a linear model in which the waste produced is intended for landfill or incineration.

This model generates waste and what we call negative externalities, hence the need to opt for an alternative model; that of the circular economy!

The latter generates opportunities at all levels of the value chain, while limiting the irresponsible consumption of raw materials and non-renewable energies, as well as the emission of greenhouse gases and the generation of more waste.

The circular economy aims to limit waste, not only during production as ine Lean management, but in a systematic manner during the different life cycles of products and their components. It is these return and reuse cycles, as well as product design, that differentiate the circular economy and recycling.

This model makes it possible to depend less on imports and fluctuations in the price of raw materials. The circular economy is no longer a choice, it is a current subject which invites us to act immediately and effectively because we no longer have the luxury of time.

To consume without damaging the environment, we must revolutionize the manufacturing process by focusing on upstream and downstream production.

Reuse contributes to the circular economy by limiting the waste of resources by extending the duration of use and life of products and their components. It intervenes in the 3 areas of action of the circular economy proposed by ADEME :

• Offers and economic actors: several economic actors participate in reuse. Manufacturers play a key role in product design; distributors take care of placing repairable or second-hand products on the market. These players directly develop the offer.

• Consumer demand and behavior: Consumers are at the heart of this activity through responsible behavior; they contribute to limiting negative impacts on the environment by extending the lifespan of products.

• Waste management: During waste sorting, certain objects can be identified, tested, repackaged and reused.

It is therefore undeniable that reuse is a pillar of the circular economy. It allows you to extend the life of a product. The equipment thus gains a second life, without going into waste status or requiring complex and costly recycling steps.

We also note that the increase in the overall quantity of waste, the shortage of raw materials and the volatility of resource prices are accelerating the process of reuse among professionals.

Ecospare offers reuse choices to manufacturers

Ecospare buys stocks of electronic equipment not used by manufacturers to extract the parts, reference them and put them back on sale so that they can be reused.

We introduce you the first French marketplace specializing in the sale of used, obsolete, new or reconditioned industrial spare parts, control and automation systems for PMI and ETI who seek to extend the life of their machines and their industrial processes at affordable costs. These parts are available, reliable and guaranteed.

You can buy and sell responsibly on our Marketplace Spare-Place.com, spare parts specialist; based on a network of more than 700 manufacturers to allow you to find the parts you are missing easily and at a lower cost, and sell those that are not needed.
They deserve to be reused or reused!