Outline of the video

• There are a couple of elements that you can provide insights on. In this video, we talk about those from indicators.
• After you have filled in Table 1 and Table 2a and your indicators have been calculated, they now need to be analysed to gain insights into the circularity of your sector.
• Remember that there is no single indicator that tells us how circular the sector is. Instead we need several indicators to cover the multi-faceted theme of circularity and in the SCA we even only cover vision element 3 “Closing material loops and reducing harmful resource use”.
• There are some such as the Circular Material Use Rate that might be more evocative and explicit more how circular a city is, BUT you really need the combination of all indicators.
• Interpretation of the indicators: In order to know what an indicator value means or represents, you need to compare it to something. Either you compare it to time and show that something has increased or decreased, but you likely don’t have time nor data to make the calculations for several years.
• Therefore, we suggest that you compare this to reference values to benchmark the indicators. For this, we have provided some benchmark values in the SCA data processing support and FAQ document for the “Circular material use rate” and the “domestic material consumption” indicators. You can use those to compare your values to the EU-27 values or your own country, if those values exist nationally.
• If you have other values, such as the recycling rate goals of your country for example, then you can use those too. Remember to state the sources for those in your report.