Hazardous waste recycled during production
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Percentage of hazardous waste generated during production that is recycled for reuse.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Single value
- Unit
- % — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period used by the reporting organization; no further period specification is present in the extracted evidence.
- Aggregation
- Weight of hazardous waste generated during production that is recycled for reuse divided by total weight of hazardous waste generated, expressed as a percentage.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Waste
- Controlled domain
- Materials, circularity and waste
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Hazardous waste generated during production, with applicability stated for direct operations, downstream and end-of-life phases.
Verified source occurrences
Framework coverage
This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- Page 55, Section 3.2, Table 14: Core sector disclosure indicators and metrics
- Adopting DisclosureBP.C2.1
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2024
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 55, Section 3.2, Table 14: Core sector disclosure indicators and metrics
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- % — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period used by the reporting organization; no further period specification is present in the extracted evidence.
Unit meaning: Values use % under the disclosed TNFD sector-guidance method, reporting period and boundary.
Published dimensions
- activity stage: production
- life-cycle stage: direct operations, downstream, end of life
- waste classification: hazardous waste
- waste treatment: recycled for reuse
Calculation method
Formula information
- Status
- Specified
- Formula type
- Percentage
Formula
(R_prod / W_gen) × 100Apply the source-defined TNFD sector-guidance method within the stated reporting boundary. This is a standalone recycling-performance percentage with an explicit waste-generated denominator. It must remain separate from the end-of-life recycling metric because its numerator population and denominator differ, and from shortlisted hazardous-waste-generation and hazardous-waste-mass metrics because those do not measure the recycling share.
Variables
| Symbol | Variable | Definition | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
R_prod | Hazardous waste recycled during production | Weight of hazardous waste generated during production that is recycled for reuse. | mass |
W_gen | Hazardous waste generated | Total weight of hazardous waste generated during production. | mass |
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
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Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 30 August 2026
TNFD additional sector guidance collection
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Locator
- Page 55, Section 3.2, Table 14: Core sector disclosure indicators and metrics
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Hazardous waste recycled during production”.
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Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: TNFD sector guidance, Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents).
- Hazardous-waste classification and any applicable legal or reporting definition.
- Definition of production activities and of the direct-operations, downstream and end-of-life coverage applied.
- Weight basis and measurement or estimation method for hazardous waste generated and recycled.
- Criteria used to determine that hazardous waste is recycled for reuse.
- Treatment of waste sent to other recovery, disposal, storage or unknown destinations.
- Organizational and value-chain-stage coverage.
Record-specific limitations
- The extracted evidence applies the metric to direct operations, downstream and end-of-life phases while defining the numerator as waste generated during production; reporters need to disclose their operational interpretation of this coverage.
- The extracted evidence does not specify hazardous-waste classification criteria, consolidation approach, geography, product population, or measurement method.
- This percentage does not report total hazardous-waste generation or hazardous-waste mass.
Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.
Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.