Indicators

39. Circular Material Use Rate
Sector
Description

The circular material use rate (CMU), also called Circularity rate measures, in percentage, the share of material recovered and fed back into the economy - thus saving extraction of primary raw materials - in overall material use. A higher Circularitity rate value indicates more secondary materials substituting for primary raw materials i.e. avoiding the environmental impacts of extracting primary material.

Methodology

"Circularity rate (CMU) is defined as the ratio of the circular use of materials (U) to the overall material use (M).

CMU = U/M = (RCV_R - IMPw + EXPw) / (DMC + RCV_R - IMPw + EXPw)

The overall material use is measured by summing up the aggregate domestic material consumption (DM3. and the circular use of materials (M = DMC + U). DMC is defined in economy-wide material flow accounts.

The circular use of materials is approximated by the amount of waste recycled in domestic recovery plants (RCV_R), minus imported waste destined for recovery (IMPw), plus exported waste destined for recovery abroad (EXPw). Waste recycled in domestic recovery plants comprises the recovery operations R2 to R11 as defined in the Waste Framework Directive 75/442/EEC. European statistics on international trade in goods (ITGS) are used to approximate the imports and exports of waste destined for recycling, i.e. the amount of imported waste bound for recovery (IMPw), and the amount of exported waste bound for recovery (EXPw).” Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/EN/env_ac_cur_esms.htm

The information above is specific to Vallès Occidental's evaluation plan. For general information on this indicator, please refer to its entry in the list of indicators. What follows below is what has been filled out by the city.
1. Local stakeholder actions
1. New material passports: Impact C
2. New material passports: Qualitative description C
3. New tools for better mapping of resources and their location: Qualitative description C
4. CE-related knowledge building campaigns: Qualitative description C
5. CE-related knowledge building campaigns: Impact C
6. Circularity related stakeholder activities C
9. New formal CE-based collaboration platforms/networks C
10. Stakeholder contribution to improved circularity C
11. Communication measures on circular transformations and waste prevention C
12. Circularity requirements in procurement beyond existing levels C
13. Circular procurement ambition set out in strategy / policy documents. C
14. Investments in circular economy programmes C
15. Procurement with circularity requirements beyond existing levels: Impact C
16. Procurements making use of stakeholder dialogue to strengthen circularity: Qualitative description C
19. Progress towards circular city strategy objectives C
3. Closing material loops and reducing harmful resource use
34. Domestic material consumption (DMC) C
35. Domestic material consumption (DMC) of virgin materials C
39. Circular Material Use Rate C
48. EU self-sufficiency for raw materials C
55. EOL-RR (End of Life Recycling Rate) C
57. Amount of sector specific waste that is produced C
58. End of Life Processing Rate C
59. Incineration rate C
61. Landfilling rate C
4. Improving human well-being and reducing environmental impacts
82. Urban population exposure to air pollution by particulate matter C
83. Levels of Particulate Matter (PM10) C
84. Levels of Particulate Matter (PM2.5) C
85. GHG emissions per year C
86. Annual CO2 equivalent emissions per capita C
87. Annual CO2 emissions per unit of GDP C