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I have recycled content information for a product, but it doesn’t specify whether it is pre-consumer or post-consumer. What should I do?

The recycled content percentage on the product data sheet is given as a range. What should I do?

The manufacturer can't give me product-specific recycled content data, but they say that they fall within the national industry average. Can I use that?

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If I have one cut sheet that meets the LEED 2009 requirement to upload 20% of cut sheets by cost, for this credit, is that acceptable?

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NC-2009 MRc4:Recycled Content

MRc4 Required Information

Hi everyone! 

I´m pretty new at LEED certification process, so I will really appreciate your help. 

We are close to upload the construction submittal on a project we have been working for about 7 years. We were planning to upload  the complete Materials and Resource Calculator. Also, we are going to provide cutsheets for 20% of the materials (by cost) to support recycled content claims. Is it enough? Is there anything else we can provide?

Thanks for your time!

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Richard Metts
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Durotech, Inc.
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Wed, 07/24/2019 - 19:15

Hello Victoria, recycled content for MRc4 is based typically on forty-five percent of the total project cost.  You enter the product data for each material and the actual cost of those materials.  Based on the data you will calculate the amount of post-consumer and pre-consumer recycled content for each.  You sum the resulting calculated costs for post-consumer and pre-consumer divided by project material cost you calculated at forty-five percent.  This will determine your percentage of recyclables and resulting points earned.  10% = 1pt.; 20% = 2pt. My best regards, Rich

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