ASTM Specialty Reports

Discover the latest advancements and technologies impacting standardization, along with the remaining gaps across various industry sectors.

Specialty Reports from ASTM International offer comprehensive insights into these developments and highlight areas where ASTM Technical Committees can focus to stay ahead of emerging trends.

Specialty Report: Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry

Published: September 2024

This report summarizes key outcomes from the Workshop on Decarbonization: A Gap Analysis of LCA Standards for Industry, an event organized by ASTM International in conjunction with NIST. The workshop aimed to identify and map gaps in international standards related to industrial decarbonization and this report summarizes those findings.

Individuals applying LCA to improve their organization's sustainability practices, standards development organizations (SDOs), and other standards professionals to inform future planning will find value in this report. Readers will discover key gaps in the field of LCA, along with recommendations for addressing these challenges, to help with the development of new standards or revisions of existing ones.

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Specialty Report: Fostering a Circular Economy of Manufacturing Materials Workshop Report

Published: March 2023

This report presents key outcomes from the ASTM International and NIST workshop, Fostering a Circular Economy of Manufacturing Materials, as well as key takeaways from the proceeding survey on Manufacturing in a Circular Economy, and next steps for addressing the standards needs identified in both.

In addition to the standards identified, two key takeaways stemmed from the survey and workshop: first, participants have a transformative, though fragmented, vision for a new way of thinking about how we create and use materials that is regenerative rather than extractive.

Second, participants are motivated to make this vision come true, and they are indicative of a larger desire across the manufacturing sector to implement circularity.

ASTM International Committee E60 on Sustainability is well-suited to play a part in developing and coordinating standards that foster a circular economy for manufacturing materials.

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