ASF is a methodology developed for the sustainability assessment of additive use throughout the lifecycle of PVC articles. It is a replicable, risk-based methodology that integrates different types of quantitative and qualitative knowledge, including environmental and lifecycle process management dimensions.
This Standardization Roadmap aims to provide an overview of the status quo of standardization in the field of the circular economy, to describe the requirements and challenges for seven key topics, and to identify possible needs for future standards and specifications.
The HOOP project has provided Project Development Assistance to eight lighthouse cities and regions, supporting them with the development of large-scale urban circular bioeconomy initiatives focusing on making bio-based products from urban biowaste and wastewater. The partners have developed a suite of open-source tools to help cities and regions launch urban circular bioeconomy projects.
circulareconomy.earth is a project set up by Chatham House's Environment and Society Programme. It enables users to explore the policy and trade dynamics associated with transitioning from a linear to a circular economy model, as well as providing analyses of the associated opportunities and trade-offs.
The GO-GRASS evaluation tool provides valuable insights and recommendations to help users make informed decisions about a business idea related to the processing of grass. The tool offers insights about critical factors and best practices, based on the four GO-GRASS demonstration sites and possible value chains for grassland valorisation.
The Navigation Tool is designed to explain the different steps in the plastic recycling process, from collection through sorting to reuse.
It gives information on the TRANSFORM-CE project’s findings, shares links to project reports and publications, gives the contact details of the project’s partners for questions or collaboration, explains IEM and AM, and suggests uses for recycled plastics.
UNECE and UN/CEFACT, together with key industry stakeholders, have launched a project for an international framework initiative to enhance transparency and traceability for sustainable and circular value chains in the garment and footwear industry.
Reducing your value chain’s emissions is a key factor in combating climate change, transitioning to a circular economy and ensuring that your business is competitive and complies with the law. This guide by Normative sets out six building blocks to measure and reduce carbon emissions from your value chain, a prerequisite for adopting circular business model principles.
This Whitepaper presents research into existing and emerging circular business models (CBMs). This results in the identification of seven basic types of CBM, divided into three groups that together form a classification.
In its publication "Transition time! A circular economy for plastics", the Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition sheds light on the challenges of plastic, shares innovative cases and makes specific recommendations on how to incentivise action.
