{"id":7397,"date":"2020-11-25T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acebrongroup.com\/economia-circular\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T14:18:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T12:18:26","slug":"circular-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acebrongroup.com\/en\/circular-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the Circular Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;7409&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The term \u201c<\/span><b>circular economy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d was used for the first time in western literature in 1980 (Pearce and Turner 1990) to describe a closed system of interactions between the economy and the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The circular economy is a production and consumption model that involves sharing, renting, reusing, repairing, renovating and recycling<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> existing materials and products as many times as possible to create added value. Thus extending the life cycle of the products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This initiative aims to support the change to an efficient economy in the use of resources and low carbon emission that helps us to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>Improving economic results<\/strong> while reducing the use of resources.<br \/>\n&#8211; Identify and <strong>create new opportunities<\/strong> for economic growth and promote innovation.<br \/>\n&#8211; Guarantee the security of <strong>supply of essential resources.<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Fight against climate change.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wc_65-yf6zU&amp;feature=emb_logo&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Recyclability and development in the wind sector<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the next two or three years almost 50,000 tons of wind generator blades will reach the end of their useful life and are currently destined to end up in landfills or incinerated. This has been perfectly explained by El Peri\u00f3dico de la Energ\u00eda dedicating an article that we share below on how the UK is launching an initiative to address the recyclability and future development of wind blades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UK&#8217;s National Composites Center (NCC) has launched an initiative to accelerate the development of technology, processes and materials that address recyclability and the future development of wind blades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They help <\/span><b>drive the future sustainability<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of wind turbine technology in three areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Recycling:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Demonstrate viable technologies to recycle the existing stock of wind blades.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Sustainability:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Promote the use of more sustainable materials, such as bio-based raw materials or thermoplastics<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Design:<\/b> Develop new innovative design-based approaches to disassembly, using sustainable materials and with end-of-life strategies in mind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_row_inner content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/elperiodicodelaenergia.com\/reino-unido-pone-en-marcha-una-iniciativa-para-abordar-la-reciclabilidad-y-el-desarrollo-futuro-de-las-palas-eolicas\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: #2029bd\" class=\"qodef-btn qodef-btn-medium qodef-btn-solid qodef-btn-custom-hover-bg\" data-hover-bg-color=\"#000000\" >\n    <span class=\"qodef-btn-text\">Read Article<\/span>\n    <\/a>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;7415&#8243; img_size=&#8221;1300&#215;537&#8243; css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Acebron Group&#8217;s commitment<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We always seek to give components a second life and fas a result\u00a0<\/span><b>we are part of the <\/b><b>Rede Galega PxR<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This movement seeks the <\/span><b>involvement <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of social entities, groups, associations, organisations and other public and private entities<\/span><b> that want to share their experience and \/ or their facilities to promote the repair or recovery of any type of object<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that has not finished its life cycle. , offering new ways to renovate or refine it to reduce waste and save money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Acebron Group we offer our clients a repair and maintenance service to not only extend the useful life of each and every one of the parts, but also through retrofit (&#8220;modernisation&#8221; of some parts of a machinery, referred above all to the control elements, whose factory parts have already lost their performance due to years of use) <\/span><b>we improve the performance of the machines<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Repairs we carry out for the wind power sector:<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>-Repair of gearbox casings: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acebron Group specialises in the repair, manufacture and machining of the gearbox casing and its different internal components such as shaft recoveries, satellite carriers and jamming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/i><b>Repairs of the main components of the nacelle: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Axles, bushings and frames.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_row_inner content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xunta.gal\/hemeroteca\/-\/nova\/104234\/activada-web-mellor-reparar-que-tirar-para-avanzar-consolidacion-red-gallega?langId=es_ES\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: #2029bd\" class=\"qodef-btn qodef-btn-medium qodef-btn-solid qodef-btn-custom-hover-bg\" data-hover-bg-color=\"#000000\" >\n    <span class=\"qodef-btn-text\">Rede Galega PxR<\/span>\n    <\/a>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>How the circular economy works<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theeconomy is based on 3 basic principles: <\/span><b>Preserving and improving natural capital, controlling finite reserves and balancing the flows of renewable resources <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and at the same time they are based on the following principles:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Waste becomes a resource<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: All the biodegradable material returns to nature and the non-biodegradable material is reused.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The second use<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: to reintroduce into the economic circuit those products that no longer correspond to the initial needs of consumers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Reuse<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: reuse certain waste or certain parts of it, which can still work for the development of new products.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The repair<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: finding a second life for spoiled products.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Recycling<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: use the materials found in the waste.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Valorisation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: energy use of waste that cannot be recycled.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Economy of functionality<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: the circular economy&#8217;s aim is to eliminate the sale of products to implement a system of rental of goods. When the product completes its main function, it returns to the company, which will disassemble it to reuse its valid parts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Energy from renewable sources<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: elimination of fossil fuels to produce the product, reuse and recycle.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Eco-conception<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: considers the environmental impacts throughout the life cycle of a product and integrates them from its conception.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Industrial and territorial ecology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: establishment of an industrial model in the same territory characterised by an optimised management of stocks and flows of materials, energy and services.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The circular economy is a production and consumption model that involves sharing, renting, reusing, repairing, renovating and recycling existing materials and products as many times as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acebrongroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acebrongroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acebrongroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acebrongroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acebrongroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acebrongroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acebrongroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acebrongroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acebrongroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acebrongroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}