Data is key to helping South Australia accelerate our transition to a circular economy.
Why it matters
Robust data allows government, industry and communities to make informed, impactful decisions.
Tracking progress against the strategy’s targets and goals ensures accountability and enables continuous improvement.
By measuring against key indicators, including what we use, recover and reuse, we can understand how well we’re progressing, where challenges remain, and where to focus investment, policy reform and behaviour change.
Ensuring consistency in data collection and reporting through standardising methodologies and harmonising data classifications across all levels of government, provides our collective data with rigor and enables comparison of results across jurisdictions.
Objectives for 2030
- Collect comprehensive and timely data to support better consumer, investment and policy decisions
- Continuously improve how we measure and report on progress towards a circular economy
How we’ll get there
Key actions
- Develop a comprehensive circular economy monitoring framework to measure and report on progress against the strategy’s goals and targets, South Australia’s circular economy transition, and help inform circular economy strategies, policies and programs.
- Support alignment with national standards for harmonised data classifications, definitions and reporting, including alignment with Australia’s Circular Economy Framework.
- Consider reforms to improve EPA waste data relating to material flows and end fates, to increase transparency and inform evidence-based policy, regulation and targets relating to specific materials.
- Consider options for a more streamlined approach to data reporting and sharing by local government to state government, and between state government agencies, on household waste generation and resource recovery performance, to provide accurate and timely circular economy metrics for all levels of government.
- Consider standardisation of kerbside waste collection bin audit methodologies to ensure consistency and enable comparison of results across councils.
Learn more about Focus area 8: Measure our transition to a circular economy.
