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Pre-consumer material

Definition: material diverted from the waste stream during a manufacturing process.

Notes on definition:

  • Note 1 to entry: Excluded is 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.
  • Note 2 to entry: also known as Pre-Consumer Waste and Post-Industrial Material.

Source: ISO 14021:2016

Type of source: Standards

CLEPA Comments:

  • Comment 1: only pre-and post-consumer materials shall be considered in recycled content calculations. Following sketch depicts simplified material streams in a production process. (See Annex A – Figure 1)