Thibaut Wautelet

Positive ImpaKT, Luxembourg

Background. Laws that enable a circular economy (CE) are being enacted globally, but reliable standardized and digitized CE data about products is scarce, and many CE platforms have differing exclusive formats. In response to these challenges, the Ministry of The Economy of Luxembourg launched the Circularity Dataset Standardization Initiative to d...

The Product Circularity Data Sheet is a digital fingerprint describing the circularity aspects of products for the Circular Economy. The ultimate objective of the Circularity Dataset Standardization Initiative is to establish an official standard for communicating data on the circular economy properties of products, in consultation with other stand...

In the face of a rising global population and the associated growing resource consumption and negative environmental impacts, the fundamental need for an alternative to the traditional linear model of growth has led to the emerging debate about circular economy. While the topic of circular economy has been receiving increasing attention in the lite...

The fundamental need for an alternative to the traditional linear model of growth has led to the emerging debate about circular economy (CE), described as an economy with closed material loops. While the topic of CE has been receiving increasing attention in the academic and grey literature over the last years, divergences on what a circular econom...