RESET® Embodied Circularity
The RESET Embodied Circularity Standard provides users with a powerful methodology for assessing, scoring and benchmarking circularity from products through to projects.
RESET Embodied Circularity is part of the RESET Embodied Standard.
1. What is RESET Embodied Circularity?
RESET Embodied Circularity is a standard and certification program that provides quantified and third-party verified environmental data for projects and products, translating complex health and sustainability data into measurable KPI. The results help users tangibly improve, benchmark, and communicate progress. For example:
- "15.4% from renewable sources"
- "61.6% can be recycled or biodegraded"
2. Why and how to use RESET Embodied Circularity?
The RESET Embodied Circularity Score takes a holistic look at material circularity with quantitative data, encompassing metrics for source-of-life (SOL) and end-of-life (EOL).
RESET Embodied Circularity is mainly used in the form of a score. There is a methodology for Project Scoring and one for Product and Materials Scoring:
Project Scoring
RESET Embodied Circularity for Project Scoring is a powerful way to establish a benchmark for the type of products that is used in your projects. It consists of aggregating the product scores with one of the Accounting Methods: Elemental or Weighted. The scoring includes the following:
- SOL - Total Source of Life
- EOL - Total End of Life - Basic (%)
- EOL - Total End of Life - Advanced (%)
Products and Materials Scoring
RESET Embodied Circularity for Product and Materials Scoring extracts and highlights the actual numbers behind the achievements and labels awarded to a product or material and makes it easily comparable to others in the industry. Product and Materials Scoring enables project teams to make objective, quantified decisions based on product performance data.
RESET Embodied Circularity for Product and Materials Scoring provides a quantitative score to evaluate raw materials or “source of life” inputs and how these inform “end of life” scenarios. Source-of-Life and End-of-Life scenarios each represent 50% of the overall circularity score. The scoring includes the following:
- SOL - Recycled Content (%)
- SOL - Biological Content (%)
- SOL - Sustainable Harvesting (%)
- EOL - Separation Factor (%)
- EOL - Recyclability (%)
- EOL - Biodegradability (%)
- EOL - Circularity Program Factor (%)
3. Next Steps and Pilots
The RESET Standard is currently piloting the Accredited Professionals (AP) Program for Embodied Carbon.
Since its launch in October 2020, the RESET Embodied Standard has aggregated high quality data from participating projects, enabling the creation of detailed benchmarks for specific industries such as luxury retail, mid-market retail, grade-A offices, visual merchandising and many more.
Participating professionals are provided with access to these benchmarks.
Call for Projects
If you are a green building professional interested in piloting the RESET Embodied AP program, please reach out to us at info[at]reset.build .
Call for Product and Materials Pilots
If you are a building material or product manufacturer in need of guidance on how to improve your RESET Embodied Score, please reach out to us at info[at]reset.build .
