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CI-2009 MRc4:Recycled Content

Pre-Owned furniture

Susan Di Giulio

Senior Project Manager

Zinner Consultants

LEEDuser Basic Member

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February 7, 2015

If a project is using less than 30% of the furniture budget's worth of pre-owned furniture, and thus not attempting MRc3.2, can that be used towards MRc4 instead? I am thinking that it is not really recycled content as it is still in its original form, but I am hoping to be wrong.

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Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:56

Susan - You should trust your gut. Pre-owned furniture used in its original form is reused - not recycled. Hence it can't be applied to MRc4.

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