Circular economy indicators: What do they measure?

By Gustavo Moraga, S. Huysveld, F. Mathieux, G. Blengini, L. Alaerts, K. Van Acker, S. De Meester, J. Dewulf. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2019

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Highlights • Indicators are useful to support circular economy progress.• Circular economy has different definitions entailing challenges for indicators.• A classification framework to understand what indicators measure is proposed.• Most of the analysed indicators focus on the preservation of materials.• None of the analysed indicators focuses on the preservation of functions.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy and Management

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Integrating the green economy, circular economy and bioeconomy in a strategic sustainability framework (2021, background): “Regarding CE, various metrics exist covering aspects at micro, meso and macro level (Moraga et al., 2019; Nikolaou et al., 2021; Saidani et al., 2019).”
Analysing European Union circular economy policies: words versus actions (2020, background): “Most indicaors are shared with the EU’s Resource Efficiency Scoreboard and he Raw Materials Scoreboard ( Moraga et al., 2019 ).”
Circular Economy Concept in the Context of Economic Development in EU Countries (2020, background): “[58] gave the classification framework to categorise circular economy indicators according to the reasoning on what (CE strategies) and how (measurement scope).”
Circular Economy Innovation and Environmental Sustainability Impact on Economic Growth: An Integrated Model for Sustainable Development (2020, background): “Union [41], has been a prime concern of many scholars in the last few years.”
Assessing scaling effects of circular economy strategies: A case study on plastic bottle closed-loop recycling in the USA PET market (2020, methodology): “MFA and LCA provide a good starting point to assessing CE strategies (Moraga et al., 2019).”
Achieving sustainable aquaculture: Historical and current perspectives and future needs and challenges (2020, background): “This new concept is founded on the responsible use of resources to promote sustainable development (Moraga et al., 2019).”