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 onsidered as circular; whereas the fourth type (virgin, non-renewable content) is the remaining portion that is from a non-circular source.