Recycled Contents

Osman Faroq

Sustainability Engineer

LEEDuser Basic Member

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May 16, 2023

Hi LEED users,

Our project is targeting at least option 1 of sourcing of raw material credit. I need to know how the manufacture can claim the precentage of recycle content. Is there any standard should be followed to demonstrate the compliance. Or only a letter from the manufactor claiming the recycled contents is suffiecient

Regards,

Osman

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Dave Hubka

Practice Leader - Sustainability

EUA

LEEDuser Expert

510 thumbs up

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 11:48

Recycled content claims must conform to the definition in ISO 14021. I understand this to require the recycled content in a product to be determined by 'mass' and not by 'volume'. never got pushback from GBCI in regards to how recycled content of a product was determined by the manufacturer. Only time comments have been received is when teams provide industry-wide or company-wide recycled content claims. LEED requires product-specific recycled content info. Hope this helps!