Hi everyone. Could a scrap of a production process be claimed as regional material, assuming that it is generated and harvested in the same plant (which is, of course less the 160 km from project site) where the material is produced? Thanks.

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Chris Klehm

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Energy & Environmental Solutions

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Tue, 12/13/2016 - 21:07

Scrap production is a great example of material "recovered", so it can be claimed as regional.

Jon Clifford

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Thu, 12/15/2016 - 03:58

Fabio—What is the process that produces this “scrap,” and what is the product into which the scrap is being incorporated before being sold to the project? I ask because LEED calculates regional material the same as it does recycled content. The recycled content calculation is set by ISO 14021, which excludes “reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.” Because using the scrap introduces no new material into the process, such scrap content would be ignored completely when calculating recycled and regional content. However, if the scrap materials from producing one product are used in a second process to manufacture a product different than the first, the scrap would be considered recycled and regional.

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