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vr.wm-flw-005 · wm-flw-005-waste-circular

Represent a bounded waste-flow account with material lineage, qualified waste status, custody evidence and substantiated recovery or disposal outcomes.

World Models Physical world and living systems PHY.FLW.WST

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Classifiers What it is Why it exists Distinguishing features What robots and AI may and may not do Moral aspects Owners Links to other meta-models Identity and identifiers Direct properties Recognition Capabilities and actions Hazards and failure modes Standards and interfaces Context of use Sources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

6 bundles · 12 layers · 12 findings · 48 questions

Scope and classification Account identity and qualified waste classification.

Account boundary

Define the accountable lot or cohort and preserve the difference between account, material lot, waste stream category, consignment and evidence document. The aggregate boundary is an authored design, not a source-mandated structure.

Identified flow account

Which master namespace and identifier identify this waste-flow account? identity
Which arising lot or bounded cohort is included in this account? composition
How are consignment, stream and document identifiers linked without equating them? relationship
Who stewards each local assertion and which responsibilities remain with other parties? ownership

Waste classification

Record the basis for waste status and classification as separate assertions. Preserve code-list versions, hazardous-property evidence and disagreements. Labels, market value and container appearance are observations, not sufficient status determinations.

Qualified waste status

What evidence supports waste, by-product, non-waste or unresolved status in the applicable profile? definition
Which waste scheme, edition and code apply to this material at this time? classification
Which observations or assessments support the hazardous-property classification? evidence
What happens when composition evidence or competent assessments disagree? exception

Origin and observations Generation, collection and measured material properties.

Generation and collection

Separate generation, collection and receipt. Preserve unknown origins and the bounded collection scope rather than fabricating a generator. Prevention and non-waste reuse belong to contextual programme references unless actual waste arises.

Traceable origin

Where and from which activity did the included waste arise? spatial
When did generation, collection and first observation occur? temporal
Which collection record connects the arising quantity to an identified receiving lot? process
Which prevention or separate-collection policy applies to this account scope? constraint

Material observations

Retain physical state, composition, mass or volume, basis and observation quality. Do not equate wet and dry mass or convert volume to mass without a supported conversion. Unknown is distinct from zero.

Comparable measured quantities

What quantity was measured and on which unit and material basis? measurement
Which method, instrument and sampling conditions support the observation? quality
What physical state and composition were observed for the lot? state
Which conversions make two observations comparable and what residual difference remains? validation

Custody and authority Transfer evidence and applicable authorization references.

Handover evidence

Index waste-specific transfer and receiving acknowledgements against external movement records. A signature can support receipt within its scope but cannot establish successful recycling or extinguish responsibility.

Qualified custody continuity

Which evidenced handover moved custody between identified holders? event
What was actually acknowledged by the receiving facility? evidence
Where does the recorded custody chain have a gap or inconsistent quantity? quality
Which record distinguishes custody, title and responsibility for this transfer? authority

Authority and restrictions

Keep applicable facility permissions, shipment consent and restrictions as separate referenced assertions. Planned movement, a notification ID or a software status is not permission. Controlled or dangerous streams remain at policy and evidence level.

Applicable authorization evidence

Which authority and permit evidence cover the recipient, waste category and relevant date? authority
Which export, import and transit rules and consent evidence apply to the proposed movement? requirement
Which policy restrictions limit access or further action for this material? security
How are expiry, refusal, suspected misclassification or reported incidents represented? exception

Treatment and lineage Treatment assertions, allocations, residues and material balance.

Treatment linkage

Record the operation actually evidenced, distinguishing planned, accepted, started and completed states and intermediate from final processing. Refer to external facility/process masters; this model cannot execute treatment.

Recorded operation and outcome

Which documented treatment operation applies to the input lots? process
What evidence supports the reported stage and completion of treatment? lifecycle
Is the outcome preparation for reuse, recycling, other recovery or disposal under the selected profile? classification
Which policy conditions or unresolved failures prevent accepting the outcome assertion? constraint

Output lineage and balance

Model input/output lineage through split, merge and transformation, with explicit allocation scope. The authored balance compares inputs plus opening stock and documented additions against outputs plus closing stock, losses and releases on a compatible basis. An unexplained residual is reported, never forced to zero.

Allocated outputs and residues

Which output and residue lots derive from each input or merged group? composition
What balance boundary includes stocks, additives, outputs, residues and documented losses? measurement
What prevents the same physical quantity being counted twice across linked accounts? validation
Which unresolved balance residual or attribution uncertainty limits this recovery claim? quality

Recovered status and circularity Qualified non-waste status and bounded reporting claims.

Recovered material status

Recovered output retains an explicit legal-status assertion. Recovery, sale, quality grade, disposal or an internal closure flag cannot alone establish end-of-waste. Downstream product identity remains separately mastered.

Evidenced transition to non-waste

Which material-specific end-of-waste criteria or case decision are being relied on? requirement
What evidence supports each applicable condition and what remains unmet or unknown? evidence
From when and for which output quantity does the status assertion apply? temporal
Which product or secondary-material master receives the qualified output reference? relationship

Circularity reporting

Record what a recycling or return-to-use metric measures. Keep a flow-account metric separate from national statistics, product recycled content and environmental benefit. Collection for recycling is not proof of final recycling; prevention, repair and reuse require their own evidence.

Bounded circularity claim

What claim and reporting population are being measured? definition
Which numerator, denominator and reporting point produce the stated rate? measurement
How are residues, repeat transfers, imports, exports and uncertain destinations treated? validation
What qualifies this metric for reuse in an external reporting or claim system? interoperability

Disposal and continuing duties Disposal evidence and site aftercare links with records continuity.

Disposal outcome

Separate facility receipt, actual disposal evidence and account closure. Closure describes local record progress and does not establish legal release or erase disposed material and its continuing obligations.

Supported disposal record

Which site and documented operation received the disposal quantity? spatial
What demonstrates actual disposal rather than storage, dispatch or receipt alone? evidence
Which portions of the account can close and which outcomes remain unresolved? lifecycle
Which schedule and legal holds preserve disposal evidence and permit lawful disposition? retention

Continuing obligations

Link the waste account to site-level aftercare obligations and observations. The account does not own monitoring equipment, remediation, permits or a complete site lifecycle. A single clean inspection cannot discharge continuing duties.

Aftercare and evidence continuity

Who is responsible for the linked aftercare obligation and which authority can change it? ownership
Which monitoring period and review trigger apply after disposal or site closure? temporal
Which monitoring or incident records affect this account and what conclusions are actually supported? evidence
Which recipient may view aftercare evidence and its protected supporting records? access

Classifiers Filled

Family: World Models
Category: Physical world and living systems
Entry kind: aggregate
Navigation path: NAV.PHY.FLW.WST
Domain: PHY.FLW.WST
Industry: Cross-industry
Tags: wastecircularphy.flw.wst
Also called: F5

What it is Filled

One aggregate is an accountable waste-flow dossier anchored to an identified arising lot or an explicitly bounded generation cohort. It indexes local assertions about quantities, descendant lots, transfers, treatment and outcomes. Each physical lot and event retains its own identity. Cohort, period and allocation boundaries are explicit; an unbounded industry or facility is not the root. The account may remain open while outcomes or legal status are unknown.

In scope

Waste-status and classification assertions, including unresolved or disputed classifications
Arising origin, measured quantities, split and merge allocations and residual uncertainty
Waste-specific custody, authorization and treatment evidence references
Recovered-output status, circularity claim basis, disposal and aftercare linkage
Local provenance, access, retention and corrective revisions

Out of scope

Generic transport planning, dispatch, physical handling, treatment control or emergency response execution
Facility, land parcel, party, permit, product and emissions master lifecycles
Binding legal determinations, automatic export permission or certification of end-of-waste status
Product carbon footprints, certified recycled-content claims and national official statistics production
Operational instructions for dangerous or controlled materials; these require specialist policy profiles

Why it exists Filled

Represent a bounded waste-flow account with material lineage, qualified waste status, custody evidence and substantiated recovery or disposal outcomes.

Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review

Unlike WM-FLW-004 Goods Movement / Logistics: Candidate reference to consignment and handover masters. The legacy EXTEND is narrowed to waste-specific assertions; generic transport and custody machinery are not reimplemented.
Unlike WM-FLW-006 Emission: Releases and emission measurements have external masters. A waste-flow account can link an emitted quantity in a balance without owning emission monitoring or permitting.
Unlike WM-PLC-002 Land Parcel and external facility master: Only site identifiers and disposal/aftercare evidence links belong here. Capacity, land title, equipment and site operation remain external.
Unlike WM-FLW-002 Water Supply and WM-FLW-003 Food Supply Chain: Legacy F4 covers two successors. Record origin or destination references when relevant; neither water service nor food production is contained in this account.
Unlike WM-ECO-014 Sustainability Claim / PCF and product/material masters: Quantity allocation supports downstream claims but does not establish product recycled content, environmental benefit or a product carbon footprint. F6 alias alone cannot select a target.
Unlike External classifiers and legal profiles: Codes carry scheme, edition and jurisdiction. EU, US and Basel concepts are separate mappings, never interchangeable code values or universal legal rules.

Note: Derived from boundary notes against neighbouring models.

What robots and AI may and may not do Derived, awaiting review

Must not

Use minimal non-identifying tombstones where lawful; local deletion cannot delete external masters, terminate aftercare or establish legal discharge.
Deny disclosure unless recipient, purpose and scope are authorized; infrastructure control grants no authority over another holder records.

May

Resolve an account reference: Proposed operation, not implemented. Resolve account, lot and consignment identifiers without merging by code, date or material similarity.
Record a supported status assessment: Proposed operation, not implemented. Append a qualified classification or end-of-waste assessment supplied by an authorized reviewer; never decide legal status automatically.
Link transfer and receipt evidence: Proposed operation, not implemented. Index evidenced custody and receiving acknowledgement while reporting missing links and quantity disputes.
Prepare a scoped quantity reconciliation: Proposed operation, not implemented. Compare compatible observed quantities with documented allocations, stocks and losses. Refuse missing conversion basis and expose double-counting or residual uncertainty.
Record treatment or disposal outcome evidence: Proposed operation, not implemented. Link external operation evidence and output lots; distinguish receipt, completion, status transition and continuing obligations.
Prepare an authorized circularity projection: Proposed operation, not implemented. Produce a recipient-scoped local claim worksheet with methodology, exclusions and unresolved evidence. Reject incompatible target definitions.

Note: Derived from functions, policies, CRUD and access rules; prohibitions were not authored for agents as such.

Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Owners Filled

Steward

Identify accountable generator, holder, processor and local record custodian roles with authority scope

Roles

Generator or origin steward: Attest origin and generation evidence within verified scope
Holder or carrier record steward: Supply transfer and receipt evidence without inferring treatment completion
Processor record steward: Supply operation, output and residue evidence linked to facility masters
Qualified classification reviewer: Assess profile applicability, status and disputes; no automatic legal certification
Records and access officer: Govern recipient scopes, retention, legal holds and disposition
Reporting reviewer: Check metric boundaries, double counting, uncertainty and claim qualifications

Links to other meta-models Filled

references

WM-FLW-004 - Candidate generic movement master binding; preserve transport and custody event ownership outside the waste account. Legacy EXTEND not automatically ratified.
WM-FLW-006 - Candidate emission master reference for measured releases included in a reconciliation; no emissions lifecycle here.
WM-PLC-002 - Candidate parcel reference for origin or disposal site; facility and aftercare masters remain external.
WM-FLW-002 - Optional water-chain origin/destination reference after F4 split; no water-supply operations.
WM-FLW-003 - Optional food-chain origin/destination reference after F4 split; no food-chain lifecycle.
WM-ECO-014 - Optional downstream sustainability-claim reference. A waste quantity or national recycling measure does not establish product carbon footprint or certified recycled content.

aligned

European List of Waste - Versioned classification mapping, not a copied classifier or automatic hazardous-status decision.
Basel Convention notification and movement documents - Policy-level field and authority alignment; exact party and shipment profile must be checked.
US hazardous waste manifest - Regional evidence mapping only, not a globally applicable form or implemented electronic filing.
SDG 12.5.1 - Conceptual reporting-boundary alignment; account measures are not automatically national indicator results.
PROV-O - Conceptual attribution and derivation mapping without executable RDF conformance claim.

neighbor

WM-FLW-004 Goods Movement / Logistics - Candidate reference to consignment and handover masters. The legacy EXTEND is narrowed to waste-specific assertions; generic transport and custody machinery are not reimplemented.
WM-FLW-006 Emission - Releases and emission measurements have external masters. A waste-flow account can link an emitted quantity in a balance without owning emission monitoring or permitting.
WM-PLC-002 Land Parcel and external facility master - Only site identifiers and disposal/aftercare evidence links belong here. Capacity, land title, equipment and site operation remain external.
WM-FLW-002 Water Supply and WM-FLW-003 Food Supply Chain - Legacy F4 covers two successors. Record origin or destination references when relevant; neither water service nor food production is contained in this account.
WM-ECO-014 Sustainability Claim / PCF and product/material masters - Quantity allocation supports downstream claims but does not establish product recycled content, environmental benefit or a product carbon footprint. F6 alias alone cannot select a target.
External classifiers and legal profiles - Codes carry scheme, edition and jurisdiction. EU, US and Basel concepts are separate mappings, never interchangeable code values or universal legal rules.

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete

Sources Filled

Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC, consolidated text - European Parliament and Council of the European Union
Decision 2000/532/EC, List of Waste - European Commission
Basel Convention, text and annexes revised in 2025 - Secretariat of the Basel Convention
Hazardous Waste Manifest System - United States Environmental Protection Agency
SDG indicator 12.5.1 metadata - United Nations Statistics Division
Council Directive 1999/31/EC on landfill of waste - Council of the European Union
PROV-O: The PROV Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium
Waste Framework Directive overview - European Commission

Open questions

Verify current consolidated legal instruments, material-specific rules, national implementation, party status and authoritative source versions for each adopted profile.
Develop and test nested schemas and mappings against split/merge, partial rejection, wet/dry basis, unknown origin, disputed status, shared allocations, zero denominator and continuing aftercare cases.
Restore independent external review before promotion beyond a noncanonical reviewable draft.
Independent external review is absent; the local Codex no-tools audit is a self-audit.
Direct HTTP status and response hashes are unmeasured in the sandbox; current legal versions, national transposition, party status and material-specific criteria remain unverified.
Nested instance schemas, allocation constraints, runtime functions, target mappings and conformance fixtures are not implemented.
Sector-specific waste regimes, radioactive or other specially controlled streams and operational safety procedures require separate specialist profiles.
Producer-responsibility fee accounting, certified product recycled content, life-cycle impacts and complete national statistics are outside this account boundary.

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification AGENTS.md Source Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

world-models research · reviewable-draft

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