#toolkit The [sustainability guide](https://sustainabilityguide.eu/) is an EU resource that supports both designers and clients in their work to create innovative and change-driven work that is needed to develop products, services, processes, systems, or environments that meet future requirements by gathering information, methods and good examples of how to use design to achieve a sustainable and circular business as well as social development. The toolkit includes: [[Circular product & service assessment]] #assessment >To seize and identify opportunities for businesses to become more #circular, this #assessment looks at the most important design decisions that influence the impact of #products and services along the #life-cycle stages. We translated these decision gates into a guiding questionnaire. [sustainability guide methods](https://sustainabilityguide.eu/methods/) #methods >Use #ecodesign tools and methods to minimize the environmental impacts of products and services over their #life-cycle. Maximize their benefit for the business, the user, the network-partners and society. [sustainability tools archive](https://sustainabilityguide.eu/methods/tools-archive/) #tool - [Design tools](http://sustainabilityguide.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ecodesign_Lernfabrik-design-tools-1.pdf) #design - [Materials tools](http://sustainabilityguide.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Materials-Tools.pdf) #materials - [Manufacturing tools](http://sustainabilityguide.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Manufacturing-Tools.pdf) #manufacturing - [Product tools](http://sustainabilityguide.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Product-Tools.pdf) #product-design - [Distribution tools](http://sustainabilityguide.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Distribution-Tools.pdf) #distribution - [Use tools](http://sustainabilityguide.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Use-Tools.pdf) #use-phase - [End of life tools](http://sustainabilityguide.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/End-of-life-Tools.pdf) #end-of-life-phase - [Circular Business Models Tools](http://sustainabilityguide.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Circular-business-models-tool.pdf) #circular #business-models - [Prototype Circular Systems tools](http://sustainabilityguide.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ecodesign-tools.pdf) #prototyping