CIRCULAR TRANSITION INDICATORSCASE STUDY
We are proud to continue to partner with WBCSD to further businessprogress toward a more circular economy. As a participant in the
Circular Transition Indicators project, we helped identify tools to betterself-assess our use and reuse of resources. We can now prioritize andestablish targets to monitor our progress within the circularity space.
Stephan B. Tanda,
President and CEO, Aptar
Organization Name:
AptarGroup Inc.
Industry:
Manufacturing - Packaging
Number of employees:
13,000
Annual revenue (2020):
USD $ 2.9 BillionWebsite:
https://www.aptar.com

Why are circular metrics interesting to your company?

Circular metrics can help companies evaluate their effectiveness in using
resources and take decisions in support of sustainability objectives that cover
multiple impacts like greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), biodiversity, resources
use, etc. Common KPIs facilitate conversations across value chains, helping toset shared priorities, measuring and comparing performance (circular and linear)consistently.
At Aptar, we plan to use CTI to measure our actions and commitments throughthe optimization of product solutions – e.g. increasing recycled content, biofeedstock and recyclability, and operations – e.g. energy efficiency and water
conservation. For this use case, we focused on our operations located in Asia todetermine a baseline understanding of the circular performance of our productsolutions and identify improvement opportunities.

Key challenges

Solutions

Results

As we set to work on this use case,
we focused on collecting informationaligned to the format required by CTI.
We wanted accurate information andfocused on the most transparent
data available, and on identifying
the system boundaries and the key
inflows (mass based) and outflows(product based). Our biggest
challenge was classifying our inflows
and outflows efficiently.

While working on this use case, we
understood that a good solution tocategorizing inflows and outflows
efficiently was to integrate andautomatize the data collection
process. This allowed for a lessmanual process. We created aninternal team that managed bi-weekly
meetings and quarterly reviews. The
team involved key stakeholders fordata collection and data export from
our internal tools into the CTI online
tool.

As a result of this initial use case,tangible results emerged about our
raw materials and energy use. CTI
confirmed that we should increase
drastically the percentage of recycledcontent (and/or renewable feedstock)
to align with our commitment toreduce fossil feedstock in ourproduct solutions. This use casehighlighted that we should remain
focused on our key priorities:
increasing the use of renewablesources for energy and increasing
recycled content within our products
to minimize the extraction of new
raw materials. We are now expanding
use of CTI to more of our operations.
This will help us map and assess
circularity of other sites operating
in different market segments while
we work on standardizing datacollection internally. Overall, CTI
results provided more visibility on
the impact of circular choices on
our baseline. The next step entails
understanding circular performancefrom the perspective of resource use
optimization and its alignment to ourglobal sustainability strategy.

We decided to include raw materials(plastics, metals and rubbers),
purchased goods (e.g. semi-finishedproducts) and energy. These
three groups represent the main
contributors to our product levelenvironmental impact under this use
case. Durable goods and auxiliarymaterials used in our production
processes were not included basedon their smaller level of impact. We
selected indicators that provided
insights on resource use efficiency
and that illustrate the added businessvalue for our company’s circularmaterial flows.

Aptar is a B2B company. This meansthat we do not have full visibilityon the end to life management
and recyclability scenarios for thefinished product outflow. We realizethat this is one of the most important
outflows for a more circular economy,
therefore – along with data from our
LCA tool - we considered databases
from external partner organizations(e.g. Ellen MacArthur Foundation).