Issue 02, June 2026
RE:SETTING THE STANDARD
Building a world designed around circularity. Discover the organizations, projects, and programs setting the standard for circular action, with special articles from CSA Group and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Contents
Front
Theme Spreads
The Circular Economy Standards Journey and Where We Are Now
- How Standards Actually Emerge The five stages a standard passes through, from a working practice to a published consensus.
- What Gets Measured Gets Circled Where the Global Circularity Protocol stands, and what it could save by 2050.
Features
- Building the Foundations for a Circular Economy: Why Standards Matter What standards do for circularity, and why they are the slowest and most decisive part of the work. By Michael Leering, Director of Environment & Business Excellence Standards at CSA Group
- City of Toronto Guiding a city-wide circular economy transition
- ChopValue Transforming a common utensil into materials under key manufacturing standards
- Circular Innovation Council Reinforcing the circular economy as a foundational strategy
- KORE Outdoors Repairing our relationship with product longevity
- Ten Lives Festivals Sparking a movement to empower people and regenerate the land
- Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute Providing a framework to transform circular ambition into verified action
- Martin Charter on ISO 59000 Collaborating internationally on a series of circular guidelines
- GRT Digging deep into regenerative waste and resource management
- The Ellen MacArthur Foundation: Scaling Circular Economy Implementation A conversation with Danielle Holly, Executive Lead, North America
Contributors
The people interviewed in this issue, and the team that made it.
CSA Group
Michael Leering
Director of Environment & Business Excellence Standards. Guest author
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Danielle Holly
Executive Lead, North America. Guest author
ChopValue
Alison Lee
Global Marketing Director
Circular Innovation Council
Jo-Anne St. Godard
Executive Director
City of Toronto
Meaghan Davis
Manager of Incubation & Design
Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute
Elwyn Grainger-Jones
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
GRT
Deanna Woods
Director of People and Product Development
KORE Outdoors
Kevin Pennock
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Martin Charter on ISO 59000
Martin Charter
Head of UK Delegation and Expert for ISO TC 323 (Circular Economy)
Ten Lives Festivals
Louis De Jaeger
Networking and Regeneration
Editor-in-Chief
Hamish Khamisa
Editors
Libby Shabada
Michelle Baleka
Art Director
Elisabeth Choi
Project Manager
Alexandra Nikitina
Project Coordinator
Ken Yeung
Photo Editor
Sonia Lau
Publisher
Sparx Publishing Group Inc.
Thank you to our sponsors
This issue is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors, whose commitment to a more sustainable future helps accelerate Canada’s circular economy. Their partnership allows us to continue sharing the ideas, innovations, and stories that drive meaningful change across industries and communities. We are deeply grateful for their belief in this work and their role in moving Canada’s circular economy forward.
Issue 02, June 2026