Circular Economy

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) has launched the Sustainability and the Internet Research Group (SUSTAIN RG) to advance the Internet as a foundation for sustainable and resilient societies.

The Standardization Roadmap Circular Economy was published in 2023 and provides and overview of circular economy standardization. It highlights gaps for potential further work, based on the EU Circular Economy Action Plan.

The following key topics are covered:

As part of the CircThread project we carried out a mapping of relevant standards related to Circular Economy from a product life cycle perspective, finding 193 relevant standards in this context. These can be navigated through a dashboard here - https://circthread.com/standardization-toolkit/. A listing of these standards can be found in the associated Deliverable: https://circthread.com/download/deliverable-9-1-standardisation-toolkit-v1-online-interactive-tool-report/

There are two work item groups joint ITU-T and ETSI EE EEPS

ETSI DTS/EE-EEPS55 joint with ITU-T L.GDSPP

I recently spent a lot of time trying to understand where to find and publish the 'best' CE research and as you know, individual metrics are often not indicative of the quality of a journal so I put together a few indicators and came up with this list. Feel free to add more relevant CE journals in the comments!

This discussion is meant to provide an overview of circular economy (CE) standards currently under development as well as those that have already been published.

This list does not claim to be exhaustive but rather a starting point for anybody looking for orientation among CE standards. The list will be updated throughout the next weeks.

International standards

ISO: TC 323 (under development)