AAP Recommendation

L.1024: Effect for global ICT of the potential of selling services instead of equipment on the waste creation and environmental impacts

Study Group
5

Study Period
2017-2020

Consent Date
2020-10-23

Approval Date
2021-01-06

Provisional Name
L.SEEQ

Input used for Consent
SG5-TD1597

Status
A

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It is expected that currently billions of new ICT goods - smartphones and others - are sold annually and even more are expected in 2025. Business models based on servitization which would - most effectively - improve the circularity of these ICT goods are not well understood, e.g. prolonging the lifetime and/or the e-waste collection rate. The cases in the ICT ecosystem - for which the ICT goods - are better sold as services/subscriptions than products, are not clearly understood from an environmental point of view. This Recommendation utilises information compiled from stakeholders which can provide good insights into the specified potential challenge.

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