TS ISO 59020
Circular economy - Measuring and assessing circularity performance
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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TS ISO 59020 is the standard that defines a framework for measuring and assessing circularity performance in organizations and in broader economic systems. In circular economy practice, the central issue is how to quantify and interpret circularity at a given point in time, using data on material flows, value retention and system boundaries. The standard is intended for organizations of all types and sizes and relies on collecting and calculating data through mandatory and optional circularity indicators.
The measurement and assessment framework
A key part of the standard is the disciplined setting of system boundaries, the selection of suitable indicators, and the consistent, reproducible handling of data. This makes the resulting assessment more than a snapshot: it becomes a meaningful and verifiable performance view that can support comparison over time or across organizational units. In general technical terms, such frameworks help organizations track circular economy objectives, identify improvement opportunities, and use a shared method for reporting and interpretation.
Scope boundaries and complementary methods
- Application levels range from regional and interorganizational to organizational and product level.
- The assessment is based on mandatory and optional circularity indicators.
- The document also provides a list of complementary methods for social, environmental and economic impacts linked to circular goals.
- Its emphasis is on consistent data processing and interpretation to produce meaningful and verifiable results.
- Publication Date: 8.10.2024
- Standard Status: U (Yürürlükteki Standard/Standard)
- Publisher: TSE
- Document Language: en
- ICS Classification: 03.100.01 Şirket Organizasyonu ve Yönetimi (Genel); 13.020.20 Çevre Ekonomisi
- Pages: 88
- Source Standard: ISO 59020:2024
- International Equivalents: ISO 59020-EQV
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