Circular Business models create enormous value for companeis and the planet.
Claims of circular busines are often widely exaggerated.
Circular business represents a fundamental departure from the traditional linear "take-make-dispose" economy, instead designing systems where materials, products, and resources maintain their highest value through continuous cycles of use, recovery, and regeneration.
Rather than extracting virgin resources, manufacturing products, and discarding them as waste, circular business models keep materials in productive use through strategies including product design for durability and disassembly, reuse and refurbishment programs, remanufacturing and component recovery, recycling and material regeneration, and innovative service models where customers access product benefits without ownership (product-as-a-service, sharing platforms, leasing arrangements).
The goal is to eliminate waste as a concept. Speeki Assurance helps to prove that goal to your stakeholders.
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Global Circularity Protocol (GCP) System Conformity Assessment
Speeki provides independent conformity assessment and verification of organizational circular economy management systems against the Global Circularity Protocol, the emerging international standard for measuring and reporting circular economy performance.
Our assessment examines whether your organization has implemented the GCP's systematic approach to circular economy management including material flow analysis, circularity indicators calculation (Material Circularity Indicator, waste circularity rate, water circularity rate, etc.), circular design principles integration, value retention strategies, and comprehensive reporting of circular economy performance across your operations and value chain.
We verify that your GCP implementation accurately measures material inputs and outputs, properly calculates circularity metrics according to GCP methodologies, establishes appropriate system boundaries, tracks circular economy initiatives' effectiveness, and produces reliable data for circular economy disclosure. This conformity assessment provides independent verification that your circular economy management meets the GCP framework requirements, positioning your organization as an early adopter of this emerging global standard while the assurance infrastructure is still developing.
As the GCP gains recognition as the authoritative framework for circular economy measurement—similar to how the GHG Protocol became the standard for carbon accounting—early adoption with credible third-party verification creates significant first-mover advantages in demonstrating circular economy leadership.
Speeki's GCP conformity assessment establishes credibility in your circular economy claims before verification becomes commonplace, demonstrates systematic rather than ad-hoc circular economy management, and provides a foundation for future circular economy reporting assurance as disclosure requirements mature.
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Circular Economy & Recycled Content Verification (ISO 1402 and others)
Speeki provides independent verification of circular economy product claims including recycled content percentages, recyclability assertions, product durability and lifetime extension claims, remanufacturing and refurbishment programs, and take-back scheme effectiveness.
Our verification examines mass balance documentation proving recycled material inputs meet claimed percentages (e.g., "contains 30% post-consumer recycled plastic"); validates chain of custody from waste collection through processing to your manufacturing; assesses recyclability claims against technical standards (ISO 14021, recyclability protocols) and real-world recycling infrastructure availability; verifies design for disassembly features and material compatibility claims; confirms durability testing and expected lifetime claims; and evaluates circular business model assertions including product-as-a-service, leasing, take-back, and remanufacturing programs.
This verification is essential as regulators introduce requirements such as the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) mandating substantiation of recyclability, durability, and recycled content claims, and as green claims legislation prohibits unsubstantiated circular economy marketing.
Circular economy claims are highly vulnerable to greenwashing allegations because they're easily made but difficult for customers to verify—a product claiming "100% recyclable" may be technically recyclable but practically unrecyclable due to lack of recycling infrastructure, material combinations, or economic viability.
Speeki's verification ensures your circular claims are substantiated, appropriately qualified (theoretical vs. practical recyclability), and defensible under emerging regulations.
This verification is critical for packaging companies claiming recycled content percentages that must be proven through certified supply chains, electronics manufacturers claiming product longevity and repairability, fashion brands asserting textile recyclability, and any product competing on circular economy credentials in markets where unverified claims face regulatory enforcement and consumer backlash.
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Remanufacturing, Refurbishment & Product Life Extension Verification
Speeki provides independent verification of remanufacturing and refurbishment programs that extend product lifetimes, validate product durability claims, and substantiate circular business models based on product life extension.
Our verification examines remanufacturing processes and quality standards ensuring refurbished products meet original specifications; validates claimed product lifetime extensions and durability performance against testing data and field evidence; assesses design for durability features (modular design, replaceable components, upgrade pathways) enabling life extension; verifies warranty and performance guarantees offered on remanufactured products; confirms that life extension claims are substantiated by actual product usage data rather than theoretical estimates; evaluates environmental benefits calculations comparing remanufacturing to new production; and determines whether circular business models based on product longevity (long-life guarantees, repair services, modular upgrades) are operational and achieving claimed outcomes.
We verify claims about product durability, repairability scores, component replaceability, and expected service life that increasingly face regulatory requirements under the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and Right to Repair legislation.
Product life extension represents a fundamental circular economy strategy—yet lifetime and durability claims are difficult for customers to verify and vulnerable to exaggeration, while remanufacturing programs may exist in name only without significant product volumes or quality standards.
As regulators mandate durability information, repairability scores, and spare parts availability, organizations require independent verification that life extension claims meet substantiation requirements and that remanufacturing programs deliver claimed environmental benefits.
Speeki's verification provides credibility for durability claims facing regulatory disclosure requirements, validates remanufacturing program effectiveness for circular economy reporting, and substantiates business model claims based on product longevity that investors and customers increasingly scrutinize.escription goes here
The Circular Business and Circular Economy bring enormous potential to business and consumers. Those that master the circular business models will create a competitive advantage and create new opportunities.
Circular business models fundamentally transform the relationship between value creation and resource consumption.
“Circular business models like product-as-a-service, remanufacturing, and take-back programs don't just reduce waste, they fundamentally rewire how companies create value, transforming one-time transactions into continuous relationships and end-of-life liabilities into profitable resource streams”.
Scott Lane, Lead Auditor, Speeki
Circular Economy Assurance by Speeki
The companies that master circular models will discover that keeping materials in productive use isn't a constraint on growth—it's a competitive advantage that decouples revenue from virgin resource extraction, insulates supply chains from material scarcity and price volatility, and positions businesses as solutions to rather than contributors to resource depletion and waste crises.
We know that Circular Economy initiatives can be complex even before you consider assurance.
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