Circular economy - compliance & regulation

Build a clear view of your strategic potential within a circular economy, your exposure to legislation, or get assistance in addressing your company’s climate impact and navigating the challenges of estimating and addressing Scope 1, 2, and particularly Scope 3 emissions.

Climate change and resource scarcity are challenging current practices, which requires companies to significantly enhance their environmental impact and navigate complex regulations, followed by reassessing their strategies, especially their strategy for reducing climate impact.

The European Green Deal emphasizes the need for sustainable products and efficient resource use, making it essential to integrate circularity and climate impact into corporate strategies. Our team combines strategic insight with practical expertise to help you identify your potential in the transition towards a circular economy, ensuring compliance and preparing you for inevitable changes. We are here to support you in achieving a profitable, sustainable, and legally compliant circular ambition.

Contact us today to start your journey. Explore our services below, you can also try out some of our smaller “get started” services such as our circular accelerator workshop and circular economy trainings, or even our EU policy readiness assessment.

Sustainability requirements and regulatory compliance

Sustainability, product, packaging and extended producer responsibility regulations are evolving rapidly. For businesses, this means new requirements for data, processes, responsibilities and reporting.

Stena Circular Consulting helps you understand which regulations and requirements are relevant to your business and how to turn them into practical actions.

Regulatory compliance is about more than understanding legislation. Requirements need to be translated into data, processes and concrete actions. We support with: requirements mapping, current-state and gap analysis, data and information needs , prioritisation and implementation of actions.

PPWR – Packaging regulation

The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) affects companies that design, use, import or place packaging on the market. We help you understand how PPWR affects your packaging, material choices, data and processes, while identifying opportunities to reduce environmental impact and costs.

PPWR services

DPP – Digital product passport

The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is part of the EU's drive to increase traceability and transparency across products, materials and product characteristics. We help you assess what product data you have, identify potential information requirements, and determine which processes and capabilities need to be developed.

ESPR – Ecodesign regulation

The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) is a key part of the EU's transition towards more sustainable and circular products. We help you understand how developments in ecodesign, product information, resource efficiency and circularity may affect your products, value chains and business models.

EPR – Producer Responsibility

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) places responsibility on companies for products' and packaging's end-of-life handling. We help business understand which requirements apply, including relevant information and reporting obligations, and how producer responsibility can be integrated into business processes.

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Strategy with a circular lense

Businesses often struggle with incorporating circularity into their strategy and measuring its impact. Navigating the complex landscape of sustainability and circularity can be overwhelming, especially with increasing demands from customers, investors, and regulators.

To address these challenges, we offer a flexible strategic project approach that applies a circular lens. Our projects help businesses identify their circular ambition, embrace circularity for value creation, and develop practical and profitable circular business solutions. We identify opportunities to integrate circularity seamlessly into business processes, minimizing waste, reducing environmental impact, and optimizing resource consumption. Our goal is to support businesses in embracing the circular economy for long-term profitability.

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Decarbonization strategy

Future-proofing your business starts with understanding and addressing climate impact. Circular strategies offer practical solutions for navigating the complex challenge of Scope 3 decarbonization. Stakeholders increasingly expect companies to address greenhouse gas emissions across their value chain.

Scope 3 emissions, those outside of an organization’s direct control, are often the largest and most difficult to measure and reduce. Yet, addressing them is critical for delivering on climate goals and building long-term resilience.

We support companies in measuring and managing climate impact across Scope 1, 2, and 3; even when data is limited or fragmented. Our approach includes mapping of GHG emissions, identifying hotspots, and developing decarbonization roadmaps informed by circular economy practices.

We also guide organizations in aligning with climate reporting frameworks and validating targets, including the European Sustainability Reporting Standard (ESRS) and the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). This includes data collection, target setting, audit for compliance, submission, and action plan development. The outcome is a credible climate strategy tailored to your organizational context.

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CSRD: Resource use and circular economy (ESRS E5) disclosure support

As part of the ESRS E5, you are required to disclose how your company strategy, business model, and operations support a transition to a circular economy, and the financial impact in terms of risks and opportunities that resource use and circular economy has on your business.

Stena Circular Consulting can assist you in complying with the “Resource Use and Circular Economy” (ESRS E5) requirements. This includes but not limited to collecting, synthesizing and disclosing the required information on material inflow and outflow, repairability of products, financial effects. Furthermore, we help you close key knowledge gaps in terms of how to take the right steps to become more circular, while also demonstrating to the market, customers, and investors that you are committed to circularity.

We leverage our knowledge of the resource management industry and circular economy to guide you in making sense of the large amounts of data and disclosing information needed to meet the ESRS E5 reporting requirements.

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Simplify your entire ESRS E5 resource outflow reporting

Do you already have waste data from Stena Recycling? Together, we can deliver a complete ESRS E5-5 solution by connecting the reporting of product and service portfolio circularity with your waste reporting, creating a comprehensive view of resource flows.

About the CSRD service

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Going Circular - E-Learning

Need to build awareness within the organisation about circular economy? Together with some of Sweden's most successful and sustainable companies we’ve developed an online e-learning course. They have shared their knowledge and experience to help create an accessible course that aligns with the business perspective. We believe we need to make the journey towards circularity together.

The Going Circular course gives your team a clear picture of what the circular economy is and why we need to act. You will also get insight and tools to decide HOW to act. Above all, the training highlights the advantages of the transition towards circularity and sets focus on how to reduce waste, optimise resources, and tap into new business opportunities that align with the sustainability goals of the 21st century.

This course is already online, you can buy a licence to access content on our platform or integrate it in your Learning Management System.

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Circular economy strategy for compliance & regulations