By 2030, we aim to send zero waste from our operations to landfill and incineration.
We aim to maximize the value of our systems, reusing resources as much as possible, while minimizing waste, decoupling our growth from resource consumption, and recycling materials.
Through our circular economy approach, we aim to ensure our products and services retain and create as much value as possible for us and our partners in the ecosystem.
Our approach to achieve this is designing products for longevity and reuse, creating closed-loop supply chains and encouraging the recycling of materials. Our strategy includes the following principles:
- Prevent waste from our assets, systems and processes by redesigning them, in collaboration with our suppliers and customers, to limit their environmental impact
- Extend the lifetime and productivity of our systems and assets to maximize their usage throughout their life cycles
- Reuse resources, parts, tools, packaging and goods across the value chain
- Recycle materials if we can no longer apply any of the previous principles, avoiding incineration and landfill
Prevent waste
We are rethinking and redesigning systems and processes to avoid waste, focusing on design, sourcing and quality.
We design our systems to last for as long as possible, using feedback loops to learn from failure modes and repair activities to continuously improve. We work with suppliers to increase our use of recycled materials which can be upgraded, refurbished, repaired and recycled. A dedicated team enables us to take a sustainable packaging approach while also ensuring the safe transport of our systems.
Extend lifetime
A well-maintained ASML system can last for decades and create value for more than one customer. We aim to keep systems in use as long as economically and environmentally possible, focusing on service, upgrades and refurbishment of assets, systems and goods.
Our refurbishment strategy focuses on buying back systems that are not operational in the field, harvesting parts from decommissioned systems and managing the continued availability of spare parts.
