Circularity Indicators Questionnaire
Sept. 17, 2013 Meeting of Sustainability Leadership Forum – London
Samsung Hosting
Pre-meeting reading:
Ellen MacArthur Foundation Circularity Indicators Project
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Project Overview
Methodology
Case Study
Company Level Calc. Excel Spreadsheet
Product Level Calc. Excel Spreadsheet
Please email your responses to Joseph.Dixon@onthecourtcoaching.net by Monday, Sept 14, 2015
Thank you!
Issues re Circularity Indicators
Product Level Methodology
Input in the production process: How much
input is coming from virgin and recycled
materials and reused components?
Utility during use phase: How long and
intensely is the product used compared
to an industry average product of similar
type? This takes into account increased
durability of products, but also repair/
maintenance and shared consumption
business models.
Destination after use: How much material
goes into landfill (or energy recovery),
how much is collected for recycling, which
components are collected for reuse?
Efficiency of recycling: How efficient are
the recycling processes used to produce
recycled input and to recycle material
after use?
A detailed bill of materials for the product is
needed to compute the MCI, listing the
above data for all its components and
materials.
Company Level Methodology.
Biggest challenge you’d like
to get the Forum member’s
perspectives on?
Greatest insight and
learning you’d like to
share with the group?
Reference Product Approach. For many
businesses, it would not be practical
to undertake an MCI assessment for every
single product it places on the market. The
company methodology therefore takes a
reference product approach so that the
MCI only needs to be computed for a list of
reference products, each of which represent
a range of similar products.
Normalising Factor. The MCI of a company is
then obtained by taking a weighted average
of reference product MCIs using either mass
or revenue as a normalising factor
Issue Clarification Questions. During the roundtable portion of the Forum, all members will have the
opportunity to bring to the Forum a specific issue they are facing on the Forum topic (Circularity
Indicators). You can use the questions below to clarify your thoughts on your issue prior to the Forum.
You do not have to provide the answers to these questions with your questionnaire responses. Instead,
use this as a pre-meeting aid which helps you articulate the challenge for which you’d most like to get
advice from the Forum members during the roundtable.
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One or two sentences that get to the heart of the problem in no uncertain terms. The issue is:
What I really want to happen. My ideal outcome is:
Effect on dollars, people, products, services, etc. It is significant because:
Relevant Background information (How/when/why it started, who the players are, the forces at
work, today’s focus, future impact.)
5. All the various steps I could take. My Options are:
6. This is the option above I plan to pursue at this moment. Direction I’m headed
7. Help I would like from the Forum. (Options missing? On the right track? What would you do
differently & why? Should I do nothing? Etc.)