Deliverable 3.1: Circular Product Accounting Framework Overview and Technical Description

This is a pre-publication of this CircThread project deliverable. The deliverable is still pending formal review and acceptance by the EU project officers active in the H2020 CircThread project.

Linked to T3.1. Provides a Circular Product Accounting Framework Overview and Technical Description for the CircThread projects including as outcomes: a new accounting standard for product circularity in material flows and product quality/value, looking at the current life cycle and next end-of-use cycle. It will be based on the Product Circularity Datasheets Standard (PCDS) to design algorithms for their automatic calculation given the appropriate data inputs are available, including an assessment of data integration needs for the algorithms from different sources.