Coaching of an association of industrials for a better understanding of the circular economy concept

Client

2014-2015 (project in collaboration with Quantis)

SCORELCA was created in March 2012 and aims to promote and organize collaborative work between stakeholders from the industrial, institutional and scientific sector. This will favor a positive, shared and recognized evolution of the global environmental quantification methods (in particular the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)) and will determine their practical implementation, at the european and international level.
Founding members : Total, EDF, GDF Suez, Veolia, Renault, Saint-Gobain, ADEME, Record
An inventory of the concepts, the issues and the works that was carried out related to the assessment methods of circular economy.
Identify the most relevant methods to make an environmental (and economic) assessment of global and local material loops.
Have reliable and supportive information to assess the environmental performance of existing or futur global and local material loops.
Make recommendations on the most efficient methods and reliable indicators to assess the environmental efficiency of circular economy project.

Presentation of the fundaments of Circular Economy and its appropriation by the industrial and private sector
Identification of the main assessment methods
Highlighting of the methodological issues, based on a review of the Circular Economy literature and projects.
Application of those methodologies on concrete case of material loops.
Make operational recommendations for the implementation of these methodologies.

Circular Economy diagram