{"id":1288,"date":"2024-05-22T10:08:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T08:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coopreneur.top\/?page_id=1288"},"modified":"2024-05-22T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T08:08:49","slug":"refabrication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coopreneur.no\/index.php\/en\/refabrication\/","title":{"rendered":"Refabrication"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why Refabrication is so important for the Circular Economy<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong><em>In industry, \u00be of the energy is used to produce inputs such as cement and steel, but only \u00bc is used to produce finished products such as buildings or cars\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>For the use of labor power, the relationship is the opposite: three quarters are used to produce finished products<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">\u00a0 (Stahel\/Reday1976: The Potential for Substituting Manpower for Energy).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>This is important as the energy and environmental costs of extracting new resources are typically large:<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u00abMaterials come with a multiple backpack of mining waste and environmental impairment.\u00a0<\/em><em>The backpacks of mining waste (measured in tonnes) differ for each material and are highest for rare metals such as gold (with a backpack of 500,000), lowest for plastics (with a backpack of 0.1). <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Manufactured capital in the form of infrastructure, buildings, goods and components has individual accumulated backpacks of all the materials and energies they embed, which have to be calculated individually.\u00bb <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>Walter R. Stahel (2019:46) Circular Economy-A users guide.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pressure on water resources, land areas, bio-diversity, conflicts and working conditions are further adding up the human and environmental costs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Visualising the Energy-Labour relationships<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Phase 1 in the production of new goods: Raw materials are converted into inputs (each unit represents 25% of the total need):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1338 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/coopreneur.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Energi3-300x81.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"91\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"52AD2192_191A_4A25_6BDF_CC50FCFD217A\"><strong>Phase 2 in the production of new goods: Use of inputs (steel, cement, plastic, etc.):<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1337 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/coopreneur.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Energi2-300x56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"64\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Energy\/Labor ratio in Remanufacturing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1336 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/coopreneur.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Energi1-300x54.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Based on Jonathan T. Scott (2011) [ed: Walter R. Stahel] : <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessperformance.org\/sites\/default\/files\/New_Standards_May_update.pdf\">New Standards for Long-Term Business Survival<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<div id=\"52AD2192_191A_4A25_6BDF_CC50FCFD217A\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>REFABRICATION requires much less raw materials and energy. This is because input goods are only needed to supplement what is lost in the remanufacturing process. And, remanufacturing of mass-produced goods costs about 40% less than corresponding new goods of the same quality.<\/strong> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>(Walter R. 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