Food Circularity Check

Compared with the total input material resources, does the company calculate the difference between the amount of input material resources and the amount of output residual resources?

At the company level, do you monitor the percentage of by-products and resources that are valorized or put to other uses compared to the total input material resources?

Does the company quantify the renewable or recycled material resources used for packaging (primary, secondary, and tertiary) relative to the total packaging used?

Can you tell how many renewable raw materials are input?

Do you know how many secondary material resources and/or by-products and/or components are subject to upcycling actions?

Do you calculate the percentage of raw and secondary materials purchased or acquired from local suppliers versus those from other sources?

Could you tell how many incoming resources have a tracking system (e.g., product passport), compared to the total?

If you need critical raw material inputs, do you have any idea how much comes from recycling, recovery, and by-products?

If you need articles, complex objects, and mixtures containing substances under authorization or restriction on entry, calculate how many are there in relation to the total incoming resources?

If the company produces residues, do you monitor self-produced primary and secondary material resources?

Compared to the total farm water needs, could you tell the percentage of water from recovery or recycling?

Compared to the totalelectricity consumed by the company, do you keep track of that which is self-generated from renewable sources or through recovery processes?

Compared to the totalthermal energy consumed by the company, do you keep track of that which is self-generated from renewable sources or through recovery processes?

If you purchase electricity, do you monitor the percentage of that from renewable sources?

If you purchase thermal energy, do you monitor the percentage of that from renewable sources?

Of the total waste generated, could you tell what percentage of municipal and/or special waste is sent to landfills in an undifferentiated manner?

Of the total waste generated, could you tell what percentage of municipal and/or special waste is managed and collected separately?

If the company produces special waste, do you monitor how many follow a recovery process?

Does the organization conduct its carbon footprint assessment according to UNI EN ISO 14064-1?

Does the organization conduct a carbon footprint assessment of output products in accordance with UNI EN ISO 14067 or an EPD in accordance with UNI EN ISO 14025?

Does the organization conduct a carbon footprint assessment of incoming products in accordance with UNI EN ISO 14067 or an EPD in accordance with UNI EN ISO 14025?

Could you tell how much waste is treated at local valorization plants?

Do you quantify incoming resources (products, components, and materials) subject to reverse forms of end-of-life logistics?

Do you quantify the output resources (products, residues, by-products, wastes, components, and materials) subject to reverse forms of end-of-life logistics?

Do you calculate the actual carrying capacity used by transport vehicles (both outward and return) compared with the total capacity?

Compared to the total number of employees in the current year, do you monitor the number of employees who participate in company- or third-party-sponsored sustainable mobility initiatives?

In the case of manufactured products, components and materials that no longer have a market, do you monitor their reuse in the company itself or by third parties?

Calculate the economic value of green procurement in the year compared to the total economic value of procurement?

Calculate the value of supplies from suppliers with product and/or service and/or organizational sustainability and/or circularity certifications in the current year compared to the total value of supplies in the year?

Do you monitor the value of products and services procured from suppliers adopting circular business models in the current year compared to total products and services procured overall?

Calculate the value of purchases of products and services, which favored local suppliers in the current year, compared to the total value of purchases made (excluding raw materials)?

Calculate the value of the products/services you generate referring to circular business models compared to total products/services?

Calculate the value of products and/or services brought to market that have product and/or service sustainability and/or circularity certifications in the current year compared to the total value of products and/or services brought to market?

Calculate the ratio of the amount of products generated to the amount of resources used in the current year?

Quantify the percentage of by-products compared to the total production residues generated in the current year?

Do you monitor the percentage of research and development (R&D) investment devoted to projects related to circular economy principles in recent years compared to total R&D investment over the same period?

Do you monitor material, water, and energy resources by quantifying the percentage of resource inputs from other companies through industrial symbiosis mechanisms relative to total resource inputs?

Do you monitor material, water, and energy resources by quantifying the percentage of output resources valued externally by other companies through industrial symbiosis mechanisms relative to total output resources?

Could you tell how many incoming and outgoing services are carried out through industrial symbiosis mechanisms compared with total services in the current year?

Does the company implement industrial symbiosis models to share its assets?

Are there resource accounting systems in place to collect and analyze resource consumption data?

Is there a strategy and monitoring system for product life extension?

Are there formalized agreements or partnerships with external stakeholders or initiatives aimed at developing strategies and sharing knowledge related to the circular economy?

Has the company made any investments in the circular design of its products, services, processes and assets in recent years?

Do you put remanufactured products back on the market, quantifying their proportion to total products released in the current year?

Do you adopt transparency and traceability systems (e.g., product passport) for material resources, products, and by-products exiting in the current year?

Do you equip your customers with support tools to repair purchased products ?

Do you offer customers a voluntary extended warranty in addition to the legally required one in the current year, quantifying the economic value of the products and services for which such an extension was offered?

Has the organization developed and is it implementing a circular economy strategy?

Do you monitor the energy performance of the company’s civilian buildings?

Compared with the total amount of goods and infrastructure purchased such as computers, vehicles, furniture, buildings, and land, quantify the percentage of purchases made on the basis of the least life-cycle cost criterion in choosing?

Do you monitor the percentage of circularly managed assets and infrastructure (end-of-life management) compared to the total?

Do you monitor the number of employees adhering to sustainable mobility initiatives promoted by the organization or third parties?

Has the company conducted documented company environmental impact assessments (UNI ISO 14040 and UNI EN ISO 14044) in recent years?

Does the company adopt an Environmental Management System?

Does the company make external communications about its sustainability and circularity performance, such as through the Sustainability Report and non-financial statement?

Does the company conduct staff training on the circular economy?

Does the company carry out internal training and information plans on the circular economy?

Has the company carried out external training and information plans on the circular economy aimed at stakeholders?

Does the company provide rewards or incentives for internal employees linked to circular economy goals?

Does the company have a sustainable mobility plan?

Does the company have an energy efficiency plan?

Do you have sustainability certifications for the company’s civil use buildings?

Has the company conducted documented social impact assessments of itself and its value chain according to nationally or internationally recognized standards in recent years?

Has the company carried out documented social impact assessments of the company itself and its value chain, according to European due diligence (such as that under Directive 1760/2024) in recent years?

Compared to total employees in the current year, do you monitor the number of employees adhering to training initiatives on the company’s role in social sustainability?

Has the company carried out internal training and information plans for staff and stakeholders on social sustainability?

Does the company have social sustainability reporting that focuses on strategic macro areas (organizational governance, human rights, sound management practices, labor relations and conditions, gender equality, and local community involvement and development)?