Broken Loops, Stalled Plans: Recovery Benchmarks for Circular Roadmaps
Somewhere between the PowerPoint and the plant floor, most circular economy roadmaps lose their pulse. You'll see the vision slide, the 2030 targets, the glossy diagram of closed loops—and then the quarterly review, where the only number that moved is the Gantt chart. The plan is fine. The intention is real. But nobody can say, with a straight face, whether the system is actually recovering. That's the gap this guide is built for. Instead of another generic framework, I'm going to walk you through a benchmark approach—tying your roadmap's progress to a set of clear, observable tiers, so you can tell stalled from moving, and broken from fixable. No cheery abstractions. Just the messy, concrete work of closing loops that keep slipping open. Where Circular Roadmaps Get Stuck: A Field Visit The quarterly review trap: when 'recovery' becomes a metaphor Slide 14.