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1. Theory of circular economy

2. Huawei circular economy practice - ECO design

3. Huawei circular economy practice - Reverse
supply chain

Theory of circular economy

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Theory of circular economy

Biological materials

Technical materials

Mining/materials
manufacturing

Farming/
collection1

Parts manufacurer

Biochemical
feedstock

Restoration

Product
manufacturer
Service provider

Cascades

Biogas
Anaerobic digestion/
composting2

Extraction of
biochemical feedstock2

Collection

Recycle
Refurbish/
remanufacture
Reuse/redistribute
Maintenance

Collection

Energy recovery

Landfill

Leakageto be
minimized

Source: EMF <Towards Circular Economy>

report, 2012

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Opportunities of ICT manufacture in circular economy

recycling
remanufacture
Second life
Life extension

Recy
cling

Distrib
ution

Use

Repair/
mainte
nance /
upgrad
e

ReManufacture
Disposal

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Huawei circular economy practice - ECO design

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Eco-Design for Huawei Products

Key metrics: Energy efficiency, material efficiency , carbon emission

Eco-Design with
Lifecycle thinking

Raw
Materials
Extraction

Production

Transport

Use

End-of-Life
Treatment

Eco-design: the integration of environmental aspects into product design with the aim of improving

the environmental performance of the product throughout its whole life cycle

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Eco-design implementation strategy in different products:

Energy, Material, or Both

Some lifecycle phases represent key environment impacts for different products

Energy consumption in use phase for telecom network equipments -> energy saving focus

Material & production for small NTE and CPE -> new focus areas, material topics
Raw
Material
Extraction
Central Office
NW Equipment

Remote
Access NW
Equipment

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Transport

Use

Energy saving
Material & Energy saving
Material saving

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Treatment

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The road of huawei Reverse supply chain

Circular
Economy
2013 to now

Reverse Supply Chain

2010-2012

Reverse logistics

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Huawei reverse management platform

Huawei reverse management platform integrates collection, storage, distribution,
dismantling, testing, repair and recycling ability, serving globally reverse business.

Reverse management
reverse warehouse
234 reverse warehouse in
129 countries
Function
collection
storage
Distribution

Reverse center
6 reverse center(Hungary,
Mexico, HK, Shenzhen,
Brazil,Dubai)
Function
Dismantling
Repair
Testing

Recycling Platform
100% coverage recycling
platform
Cooperate with TOP supplier,
and reduce the effect to the
environmental
Function
Waste disposal
Resell
Supplier Mgmt

Process and IT supporting

KPI management
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Recycling Practice-Bangladesh buyback project

1.

2.

Bengal buyback project refer to the 14K equipments, and about 724ton waste handing, and need
move the equipment in 43 from Huawei warehouse, and finish the dismantling in 138 days
according to the customers request.
All the PCB will ship to Singapore. And other Non-PCB materials will dismantling to raw material
resell in raw material market

1:inbound to suppliers
warehouse

2. Sort & Segregate

0.31%
landfill
3.Demanufacturing

4:raw material extract

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Reuse Practice: Whole Equipments Testing and Repair Project

Background:
Reverse team need dismantle whole equipments as offset and system requirement, only sub
items could be inbound to system. it will bring nearly 30% scrap in the dismantling process.
Whole testing Solution: scrap ratio decreased to 15%
(1) System optimize: System inbound by equipment level
(2) Operation level: No need dismantle whole equipments, and store by whole equipment level;

dismasting

Before

Whole
equipment
return

CPU& memory
Sub- HD
item
othes

New model

scrap

>30%

reuse

<70%

reuse

>70%

reuse

>15%

scrap

<15%

inbound
Production

Testing

Have
testing

E9000
Whole
equipment
return

Whole
equipment
inbound

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Whole
equipment
Demand
NO
review

Repair

dismantlin
g

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Most people are thinking how to impact the world,

but we are engaging to reduce the impact to the
world!
-From HUAWEI Reverse Team

Thank you
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regarding the future financial and operating results, future product portfolio, new technology, etc. There are a
number of factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or
implied in the predictive statements. Therefore, such information is provided for reference purpose only and
constitutes neither an offer nor an acceptance. Huawei may change the information at any time without notice.

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The information in this document may contain predictive statements including, without limitation, statements
regarding the future financial and operating results, future product portfolio, new technology, etc. There are a
number of factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or
implied in the predictive statements. Therefore, such information is provided for reference purpose only and
constitutes neither an offer nor an acceptance. Huawei may change the information at any time without notice.