Material resource inflows total
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Total reported material-resource inflow used during a reporting period, preserving the source-governed population, material classes, physical state, mass-or-volume choice, and measurement method rather than combining unlike totals.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Physical material inflow during the reporting period
- Aggregation
- Never add a total to components or combine mass and volume
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Circular materials and waste
- Controlled domain
- Materials, circularity and waste
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
The current ESRS profile covers overall material mass used to manufacture products and services; the GRI 301 profile covers material inputs used to produce and package primary products and services by renewable class. These populations remain separately labelled.
Cross-library identity
Library mappings and variants
These links compare quantity, population, boundary, period, unit, denominator, aggregation, dimensions, and method edition. Partial relationships are navigation aids only and never authorize observation reuse.
- Related but distinct metricPartial relationship; observations remain separate.Apparel finished-goods priority-material inflow
- Related but distinct metricPartial relationship; observations remain separate.Certified apparel priority-material inflow by standard
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 Disclosurematerial-mass-flow
EU Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard
- Publisher
- European Commission / EFRAG
- Edition
- Commission delegated act adopted 3 July 2026; pending Official Journal publication
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- Annex I paragraph 39(c)
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
GRI Standards
- Publisher
- Global Reporting Initiative
- Edition
- 2016 edition; effective 1 July 2018; publisher file retrieved 15 August 2026
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- Edition and rights pages 1–2; Disclosures 301-1 to 301-3 pages 8–10; glossary pages 11–12
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Physical material inflow during the reporting period
Unit meaning: This metric is reported as a structured table; each field carries the unit stated in the table fields below.
Table fields and units
- Source profile, governing disclosure and edition, total-or-component role, and reporting population
- Material identity, class, product or service use, source state, perimeter, and original physical state
- Total mass (kg — kilograms, or metric tonnes; 1 metric tonne = 1,000 kilograms)
- Total volume (L — litres, or m³ — cubic metres; 1 cubic metre = 1,000 litres), where applicable
- Direct or estimated state, measurement method, overlap control, entity, period, source, and uncertainty
Published dimensions
- Source profile, material class, population, physical state, mass-or-volume basis, boundary, and period
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
No single formulaPopulate the structured fields from qualifying source observations and retain each field-level unit, boundary, status, and method; do not collapse the disclosure into one calculated value.
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.
Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 15 August 2026
GRI 301: Materials 2016
- Publisher
- Global Reporting Initiative
- Edition
- 2016 edition; effective 1 July 2018; publisher file retrieved 15 August 2026
- Locator
- Edition and rights pages 1–2; Disclosures 301-1 to 301-3 pages 8–10; glossary pages 11–12
Supports: Official publisher reference linked specifically to the Sustopedia metric “Material resource inflows total”; interpret it with the source-edition basis and limitations shown on this page.
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Binding ESRS E5-4 under Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 consolidated 1 January 2025 and publisher-current GRI 301: Materials 2016; adopted-pending ESRS key-material rows remain separate.
- State governing source, disclosure, edition, source profile, total-or-component role, and included product and service population.
- State material identity and class, purchased or internal source, perimeter, direct-or-estimated state, method, and original physical state.
- For mass, state kilograms or metric tonnes and that one metric tonne equals 1,000 kilograms.
- For volume, state litres or cubic metres and that one cubic metre equals 1,000 litres; never add volume to mass.
- Prevent addition of totals to components and duplication of purchased, internal, contained-material, and host-product quantities.
Record-specific limitations
- Totals are sensitive to source profile, product population, process-material treatment, internal sourcing, estimates, and physical-state conventions.
- A total already contains its included renewable, non-renewable, technical, biological, packaging, or secondary components.
- Mass and volume are not additive, and conversion requires a separately sourced density and temperature method.
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.