Monitoring Progress towards a Resource-Efficient and Circular Economy
OECD’s report offers a framework and indicators to monitor progress towards a circular economy, focusing on material footprint, circularity rates, and product lifetime metrics.
Sustainable production and consumption: Design for disassembly as a circular economy tool
UNEP’s brief on Design for Disassembly emphasizes modularity and standardized connectors to enhance repairability and recyclability, supporting circular economy goals.
Material Efficiency – Focus on the Design
CEN-CENELEC’s material-efficiency standards and guidance support ecodesign: durability, repairability, recyclability metrics, and technical reporting formats.
Circular design: turning ambition into action
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s article underscores the role of design in the circular economy, promoting upstream strategies to eliminate waste, retain value, and regenerate systems.
Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)
EU regulation enforcing product design for longevity, repairability, recyclability, and transparency (Digital Product Passport) to promote sustainability and circularity.
Circular design & sustainable production — thematic briefing — European Environment Agency (EEA)
Product design sits at the heart of circular economy: maximizing reuse, repair, modularity and closing material loops to reduce waste and environmental impact.
Monitoring progress / Towards resource-efficient & circular economy (OECD)
OECD reports linking product-level ecodesign to national indicators and policy mixes, with guidance for measuring and monitoring material-efficiency progress.
Design for Disassembly — UNEP Foresight Brief
UNEP brief on design for disassembly: principles, benefits and barriers to making products easier to disassemble for repair, remanufacture, and recycling.
Material Efficiency — CEN-CENELEC (standards & guidance)
CEN-CENELEC’s material-efficiency standards and guidance support ecodesign: durability, repairability, recyclability metrics and technical reporting formats.
On the Way to a Circular Economy in Electronics – a Comprehensive Overview
The European Green Deal is a set of policy initiatives by the European Commission aimed at making the EU climate-neutral by 2050. This initiative is not only one of the major drivers for the transformation of the car industry to eMobility, but it includes measures to promote a circular economy, reduce waste, and enhance resource efficiency.
