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NC-v4 MRc3:Building product disclosure and optimization - sourcing of raw materials

Pre-consumer/post consumer Aluminum Recycled Content

If the manufacturing process I am involved with consumes aluminum coil to produce our end product can we use the internal scrap percentage of the aluminum reused/reverted at the mill as either pre or post consumer scrap for our recycled content percentage? Thanks

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Fri, 01/24/2020 - 12:49

Hi Trey, I don't you think you can count that as recycled content. Any recycled content you count would have to be in the coil that you purchase. Internal reuse of scrap within a factory is consider just good manufacturing practice, not recycling. Nadav

Fri, 01/24/2020 - 13:11

Hello Nadav,   Thanks for the information!

Fri, 02/07/2020 - 18:47

Hello Nadav, Could you please provide a reference on why internal reuse of scrap within a factory is consider just good manufacturing practice, not recycling?  Thank you

Mon, 02/10/2020 - 22:03

Alexis, it is in the BD+C Reference Book & Guidance, under Further Explanation / Recycled Content.  "Although it is good practice, reusing materials reclaimed from the same process in which they were generated does not contribute toward the recycled content of the material."

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