107 Life Is On | Schneider Electric www.se.com 2021 Sustainable Development Report Here are some white papers and partnerships for circular economy to which Schneider contributed: • Enabling a Circular Economy for chemicals with a mass balance approach; • Remanufacturing: Designing new products for many lives; • Making manufacturing sustainable by design; • The need for sector-specific circularity; • Partnership with Accenture for the Circulars Accelerators program. Schneider Circular Certified label Schneider Electric launched the “Circular Certified” label for the French market in September 2020. The label is dedicated to the sale and promotion of products from the circular economy and in line with the Group’s circular economy strategy. Currently available for the French market, it is planned to be deployed more extensively in the near future. Quantifying impact of circular offers Under Schneider Sustainability Essentials, Schneider quantifies its Circular Economy efforts, such as repair, reuse, refurbish and recycling and targets to avoid 420,000 metric tons of primary resource consumption through “take-back at end-of-use” by 2025, cumulatively since 2017 (SSE #10). This program enables waste, material, energy consumption, CO 2 emissions and/or water savings. Activities in this program will enrich on the basis of the Group’s increasing focus on circularity business models, and are currently constituted of: • Batteries take back and recycling; • Volume of devices refurbished and repaired in our repair centers (such as UPS or Drives); • Volume of Medium Voltage, Low Voltage and Transformers refurbished or recycled in our ECOFIT ™ Centers. 420,000 metric tons of avoided primary resource consumption through “take-back at end-of-use” since 2017 Danone Evian wanted to upgrade its bottling facility to deliver natural mineral water more sustainably by reducing energy consumption at every stage of production. Among other upgrades, the LV switchgear were modernized within Schneider Electric’s ECOFIT ™ solutions. By choosing equipment modernization with ECOFIT ™ instead of immediate replacement, Danone Evian saved an estimated 315 metric tons of CO 2 equivalent, 372 m 3 of water and 47 tonnes of raw materials. Resources SSE #10 420,000 157,5 8 8 Baseline 2025 target 2021 Progress 0 100 203,881 4.3.10 End-of-life product management and WEEE Schneider Electric has been engaged for a long time in a process that protects the environment and the health of people in the treatment and recycling of its products at the end of their lifecycle. In the context of the application of the Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, Schneider implements product identification and selection actions, establishing recycling streams and pricing the taxes to be applied in compliance with the regulations of each country where the Group’s products are sold. For products falling within the scope of the WEEE directive, a circularity profile including detailed end-of-life instructions is systematically provided through the “Check A Product” public website.