Critical appraisal of the circular economy standard BS 8001:2017 and a dashboard of quantitative system indicators for its implementation in organizations

摘要: Abstract So far, organizations had no authoritative guidance on circular economy (CE) principles, strategies, implementation, and monitoring. Consequentially, the British Standards Institution recently launched a new standard “BS 8001:2017 – Framework for implementing principles of in organizations”. BS tries to reconcile far-reaching ambitions CE with established business routines. The contains comprehensive list terms definitions, set general flexible management framework strategies organizations, detailed description economic, environmental, design, marketing, legal issues related CE. monitoring strategy however, remains vague. stipulates that are solely responsible choosing appropriate indicators. Its authors do not elaborate links between relevant already standardized quantitative tools life cycle assessment (LCA) material flow cost accounting (MFCA). Here system definition deriving indicators is proposed. Based indicator literature dashboard then compiled. mostly based analysis (MFA), MFCA, LCA. Steel data used illustrate potential core indicators, notably, residence time techno-sphere (currently 250–300 years steel). Moreover, need monitor their contribution in-use-stock growth, central driver resource depletion hindrance closing cycles.