What happens to the individual components inside a product when that product reaches end-of-life? Today, the answer is simple, and wasteful: everything goes to recycling, regardless of condition. Components with years of useful life remaining are destroyed alongside those that are genuinely exhausted. With EU regulations such as the Digital Product Passport, Battery Regulation, and Right-to-Repair Directive now demanding verifiable lifecycle data, this practice is no longer just unsustainable, it is increasingly non-compliant. This research proposes a decision-support framework that assesses individual components at end-of-life, links their condition to the most appropriate circular recovery pathway, and supports data trustworthiness through distributed ledger technology. Demonstrated on a professional battery chainsaw, the results show that approximately 80% of components retained reusable life, value entirely lost under product-level disposal, and that 70% of the circular decision is achievable with visual inspection alone. The work bridges circular economy, reliability engineering, and digital trust to turn end-of-life from a single decision into a component-by-component opportunity.