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ISO Standard
This section in module 5 expands on the ISO 59014 standard, looking deeper into environmental management and the circular economy.
ISO/DIS 59014 Environmental management and Circular Economy
Sustainability and traceability of secondary materials recovery – Principles requirement and guidance
- This standards aims at facilitating the transition of a linear to a circular economy.
- ISO 59014 seeks to recover secondary materials in a responsible manner.
- It aims to engage with individuals involved in subsistence activities.
Standards under the family of TC323 on circular economy
ISO 59004, Circular economy – Vocabulary, principles and guidance for implementation
ISO/TR 59031, Circular economy – Performance based approaches
ISO/TR 59032, Circular economy – Review of business model implementation
Simplified representation of activities and processes for recovering secondary materials
80 per cent of the 24 million waste workers around the globe are informal. (Cities Alliance)
Changing mindsets: Informal workers is not the same as illegal workers
For the first time ISO acknowledges and defines subsistence activities
Subsistence activity:
activity that provides self-employed individuals with the minimum to subsist.
Further reading
For additional context, we have included optional PDFs with further reading.