This document specifies requirements and gives guidance to organizations for measuring and assessing a defined economic system to determine their circularity performance at a specific time. Measurement and assessment are performed by the collection and calculation of data with the help of mandatory and optional circularity indicators. This document provides a framework to guide users within organizations of all types and sizes through the measurement and assessment process, including system boundary setting and choice of indicators, as well as processing and interpreting data in a consistent and reproducible manner to generate meaningful and verifiable results. The framework is applicable to multiple levels of an economic system, ranging from regional, interorganizational and organizational to the product level. To measure and assess social, environmental and economic impacts that are caused by the actions of the organization to achieve circular goals and objectives, the document provides a list of complementary methods that can be used in addition to this document.
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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
3.1 Terms related to circularity and the circular economy
3.2 Terms related to system, boundary and scope
3.3 Terms related to measurement and assessment
4 Principles of measuring and assessing circularity
4.1 Circular economy principles
4.2 Circularity measurement and assessment principles
5 Framework for measuring and assessing circularity performance
5.1 Framework introduction
5.2 Context of the application
5.3 Stage 1: Boundary setting
5.4 Stage 2: Circularity measurement and data acquisition
5.5 Stage 3: Circularity assessment and reporting
6 Boundary setting
6.1 System to be measured
6.2 Determining the circularity measurement and assessment goal and scope
6.3 Defining all resource inflows and outflows of the system in focus
6.4 Temporal boundary setting
6.5 System perspective at different levels
7 Circularity measurement and data acquisition
7.1 Circularity measurement taxonomy
7.2 Introduction to circularity indicators
7.3 Choice of indicators for circularity measurement
7.4 Indicators and value
7.5 Aggregation of circularity indicators
7.6 Data acquisition
7.7 Documentation
8 Circularity assessment and reporting
8.1 Assessing circularity criteria
8.2 Steps for assessing circularity performance
8.3 Step 1: Review measurement results
8.4 Step 2: Assessing value and impact
8.5 Step 3: Consult interested parties, users and target audiences
8.6 Step 4: Document and report the circularity performance assessment outcome
Annex A Core circularity indicators and data measurement (normative)
Annex B Additional indicators (informative)
Annex C Complementary methods (informative)
Annex D Circular economy and the SDGs (informative)
Annex E Resource outflows not recovered by the system in focus (informative)
Annex F Different types of data (informative)
Annex G Guidance on basic systems calculations and aggregation (informative)
ISO 59004 Circular economy — Vocabulary, principles and guidance for implementation
ISO 59010 Circular economy — Guidance on the transition of business models and value networks
ISO 59004 Circular economy — Vocabulary, principles and guidance for implementation
ISO 59010 Circular economy — Guidance on the transition of business models and value networks