ESRS E5 Explained: Making Circularity Measurable | Webinar with Renewi

A practical session on ESRS E5 and circularity: what CSRD asks you to report, where the data comes from, and how to turn it into KPIs, a baseline and targets. Tim Moolhuijsen (The Overview Effect) and Alice Schimmelpenninck (Renewi) recorded live on 1 October 2026. Circularity is where most sustainability teams run out of road. The ambition is in the annual plan, the data underneath it doesn't exist yet, and ESRS E5 is asking for numbers either way. In this hour we cover what ESRS E5 actually requires in plain language, how a waste partner produces the data behind circular reporting, and a 5-step approach to getting started, structured around the Global Circularity Protocol and built from an 18-month circularity project at Eneco. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome 01:54 What we're covering today 03:41 Meet the speakers 04:50 Why circularity is the next frontier of sustainability 05:55 The linear system has an expiration date 06:54 EU circularity regulation: CSRD, ESPR, CRMA, PPWR 07:41 Where critical raw materials are heading 08:26 ESRS E5 in plain language: policies, actions, targets 09:40 Resource inflow: key materials, secondary resources, critical raw materials 09:54 Products: durability, repairability, designed recyclability 10:18 Waste: diverted from disposal, and the unknown destination clause 11:00 Where companies get stuck on circularity 12:13 How Renewi works: collection, sorting, processing 15:19 Three areas where Renewi helps: data, improvements, material inflow 16:27 What customers said they needed from a waste partner 17:42 Mapping the top 60 waste streams with TNO 18:49 MyRenewi: the customer portal and CSRD export 19:28 The ugly truth of showing people their real recovery rates 20:24 Why separation at source matters most 21:27 Circular Plus: transport, wood and residual 23:24 What the numbers look like: 26% residual, 90% wood 24:37 How the mass balance principle works 25:55 Verified by KPMG and DNV 26:40 Financial additionality 27:34 The circular concrete case: a viaduct for Rijkswaterstaat 30:30 What Renewi delivers back to society 31:10 What carbon avoidance means and how it's calculated 33:22 Practical first steps: the Global Circularity Protocol 35:25 Frame: regulatory scope and strategic value, using the Eneco case 37:10 Prepare: value chain and main material flows 38:02 Scoping on high impact assets: batteries, solar, wind 38:46 Measure: KPI selection and a repeatable estimation method 40:20 Manage: policy, baseline and targets 41:07 Why Eneco started with outflow targets 42:27 Q&A: how do you verify what's actually recycled? 43:34 Q&A: turning a circularity vision into daily decisions 46:55 Q&A: embedding circularity into procurement 48:24 Q&A: mass balancing and EV kilometres 49:39 Q&A: getting MyRenewi data to end customers 50:47 Q&A: demand for circular products and deindustrialisation 53:56 Q&A: circularity in digital organisations and data centres 57:27 Closing SPEAKERS Tim Moolhuijsen, sustainability consultant at The Overview Effect. Works on circularity strategy, CSRD implementation, climate risk and KPI frameworks. Alice Schimmelpenninck, responsible for sustainability at Renewi, a leading waste-to-product company in the Netherlands and Belgium. LINKS The Overview Effect: https://theovervieweffect.nl Renewi: https://www.renewi.com #ESRSE5 #CSRD #CircularEconomy