IFCO, Euro Pool, and Logifruit assess the sustainability of their activities and their impact both financially and on people and the environment. Double Materiality has become a central issue for companies. The concept of Double Materiality was formally introduced by the European Commission in its 2019 Climate-Related Non-Financial Reporting Guidelines. The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) also incorporates the…
While the previous news have focused on the concept of circularity, circular strategies and indicators to measure it; this article focuses on what do we mean by material cycle. One of the key objectives of circularity is to “circulate products and materials (at their higher value)”. But to circulate materials or products, we first need to understand what a material…
The transition to a circular economy aims at closing material loops in order to reduce waste, use resources more efficiently and minimize the environmental impacts. But what are the strategies that the companies can establish to achieve this? In this respect, Potting et al. (2017) apply a useful framework (Fig.1) that defines 9 R-strategies, group them in three main circularity…
