Ecodesign Waste Sustainability (EWS): An Integrated Assessment Framework for Material Sustainability Indicator, Climate Performance, Transition Circularity Factor, Social Inclusion, and Environmental Regulatory Compliance

This preprint introduces the Ecodesign Waste Sustainability (EWS) framework, an integrated assessment approach for evaluating waste valorisation, climate performance, transition circularity factor, social inclusion, and evironmental regulatory within waste-related systems. The framework is intended for territorially embedded and operationally complex contexts in which waste recovery, logistics, livelihood dependence, and regulatory feasibility interact simultaneously. An applied case study from Santiago, Chile, is used to illustrate the relevance of the framework for assessing real-world waste valorisation systems under constrained urban and territorial conditions.