scope:

This document specifies a framework for organizations to measure and assess circularity, enabling those organizations to contribute to sustainable development.

The framework is applicable to multiple levels of an economic system, ranging from regional, interorganizational, organizational to the product level.

The framework provides guidance and specifies requirements on how the circularity performance of an economic system can be objectively, comprehensively, and reliably measured and assessed using circularity indicators and complementary methods. The framework can be used to determine the effectiveness of circular goals and actions executed by public and private organizations. The purpose of this document is to assist organizations in the collection of necessary information and the calculation to enable circular economy practices that minimize resource use and optimize the circular flow of resources, whilst contributing to sustainable development.

The framework accounts for consideration of social, environmental, and economic impacts when assessing circularity performance by allowing input from a variety of complementary methods.