I've started noticing a trend that products are supplying a ISO 14025 (third party) declaration that always mentions environmental impact in terms of CO2 life cycle footprint analysis, but doesn't mention pre- or post recycled content. When recycled content is mentioned then it's just lumped.
As I understand it the ISO 14021 is a self declaration. I assume that the definitions of pre- and post recycled content are defined in this norm(?), but is it required to state what those are?
What exactly should I be asking of my product suppliers in terms of documentation?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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May 11, 2010 - 1:05 pm
For LEED purposes, the recycled content in a product does not have to be third-party certified. If a self-declaration like one compliant with ISO 14021 gives pre- and post-consumer recycled content numbers, then you should be able to use that.It's too bad they're not breaking the numbers out more routinely—you'll need that for LEED.
Dario Ibarguengoitia
Ambiente Regenerativo Integral80 thumbs up
October 6, 2011 - 2:25 pm
"The recycled material claimed in the tables above meets the iso 14021 definitions of postconsumer and preconsumer material"
The concept above ( found at the template) is not clear for me, could you please explain it, Im confused about the ISO 14021 documentation.
Thank you very much for your answer.