I think that the most important message from us is
that we as a municipality have the ambition to work with circular economy
and procurement in our tender materials.
The most important message within my pitch is for me not waiting for 2024, 2025
It is to start making decisions today
We see presentation material from 2013 and 2014
And I ask myself how I would feel in 2025
if I had not made the right decisions today for a more sustainable future as we approach 2030
which we know is a very big year for the Paris Agreement.
If you want to do something about the focus areas “re-use” and “recycling”
you need to approach the younger generation, because they are the ones to make it succeed on a long-term basis.
Within electronics and electronical products there are various problems and challenges
related to waste quantities in the long term
If we don’t act and do something differently the quantities will just keep rising
Therefore, it is important that we start new initiatives within circular economy
by identifying design requirement for the products
that will make them last longer and easier to repair e.g.
by suggesting a modular design structure
If, for instance, only the camera in the smartphone is broken,
- you will be able to easily to exchange the camera without the need to exchange the full smartphone.
Our most important pitch will be, that we are a relatively small company in the start up phase of doing business
Our ambition is to pitch more to the public sector and make our company more visible
We realise that the demand is there and are pretty sure that we among others
will be able to meet these demands and therefore, we will look further into this
We acknowledge that some larger companies already have developed good solutions for this area
and we will therefore need se how we can contribute to meet these demands too.
The most important message from me today
was that we posses a conceptual solution from A to B
that handles all the outdated equipment but also put focus on the sustainability of handling the equipment
This throughout the full process from the fully new equipment till the very end when it is due for recycling and it is put into a loop again
That was the most important statements from our side.
The tender materials that the two of us are working on will be absolutely fantastic
because we by that are going to move Aalborg Municipality into a more circular direction
The process took its start approx. a year and a half ago
where we discussed the opportunity of making a circular tender for the IT area
Aalborg Municipality consists of 7 different IT departments
that we have done our outmost to get on board in the project
These departments have not been used to collaboration on a common tender previously
therefore it has been a process getting all 7 departments to realise the benefits from working together
in a joint project but also for them to engage with the full agenda.
Aalborg Municipality´s considerations about IT and circularity
is a very good way to point out what it takes from us
takes from a region
takes from a municipality
What it takes from all of us, if that is how we will succeed
Aalborg Municipality is that a large purchasing unit
that enables them to define exact requirements and demands
hat the providing companies will see benefits in meeting
And maybe even more important
it might be the good example that will make other providers realise that will be possible to succeed with this agenda
And when the providing companies in their business models start meeting these requirements
will see an interest in these demands and requirements to be implemented elsewhere
In that way we could talk about the start of a “good circle”
That outcome, I hope, is one of the successes that we witness from the project that Aalborg Municipality is working on right now
I admire Aalborg for taking the lead
in what is a very important decision
How can we extend the life of things that we don’t think that we need?
The IT. The IT has a behaviour that is very unique to itself
We have no other relationship with any other product like we have with technology
It is very linear; it is very short
So, if we can extend the life of it
there are massive sustainability and social benefits to doing it
So, hats of the people of Aalborg, for taking the lead.
I think it is a great initiative
I think Aalborg is one of the great municipalities that we are working with today, really taking a lead
Firstly, pioneer leads to the circular economy
and really driving that message through
So, the rest of the municipalities and the Danish economy can really kind of take note and learn from what we learned today
I think it is fantastic.
I think it is very positive, because this exactly is what we want to work towards
A situation where the public authorities will take the lead and make tenders
where they focus on sustainability up against economics as the two parameters
that have the focus in the tender. That indeed is really positive.
