Definition: proportion, by mass, of recycled material in a product.
Source: ISO 14021:2016 ISO 59020:2024
Type of source: Standards
CLEPA Comments:
- Comment 1: only pre-consumer and post-consumer materials shall be considered as recycled content.
- Comment 2: within ISO 59020 Annex A the resource inflows are measured to quantify four types of content:
1) reused content;
2) recycled content (as defined here);
3) virgin, renewable content;
4) virgin, non-renewable content.
These four types of content add up to represent 100 % of the resource inflow. The first three types (recycled, reused and virgin, renewable content) are considered as circular; whereas the fourth type (virgin, non-renewable content) is the remaining portion that is from a non-circular source.