Recycled content definition

Recycled content means the percentage of a product composed of recovered material, or post- consumer recovered material, or both.
Recycled content means the percentage of recovered material, including preconsumer and postconsumer materials, in a product.
Recycled content means waste materials and by-products which have been recovered or diverted from solid waste including post-consumer material, but such term does not include those materials and by-products generated from, and commonly reused within, an original manufacturing process.

Examples of Recycled content in a sentence

  • Recycled content is typically determined by calculating the weight of the recycled material divided by the total weight of the product and expressed as a percentage by weight.

  • Recycled content is measured by total product weight of pre-consumer and/or post-consumer materials.

  • Recycled content shall be expressed as a percentage of total product weight.

  • Recycled content must be at least 10% post-consumer recovered content.

  • Recycled content product" means a product made from pre-consumer or post-consumer recovered materials whose portion of weight or volume of recovered materials meets or exceeds the minimum content percentage standard guidelines established by the department of administrative services.


More Definitions of Recycled content

Recycled content means the percentage of recovered material, including pre-consumer and postconsumer materials, in a product.
Recycled content means the percentage of recovered material, including pre- consumer and post-consumer materials, in a product.
Recycled content means that portion of a package's weight that is composed of recycled material, as determined by a material balance approach that calculates total recycled material input as a percentage of total material input in the manufacture of the package.
Recycled content means the proportion of fiber in a newspaper that is derived from postconsumer waste.
Recycled content means materials that have been recycled and are contained in the products or materials to be procured, including, but not limited to, paper, plastic, aluminum, glass, and composted materials. The term does not include internally generated scrap that is commonly used in industrial or manufacturing processes or waste or scrap purchased from another manufacturer who manufactures the same or a closely related product.
Recycled content means the proportion of fiber in newsprint that is derived from
Recycled content means the percentage of recovered material, including pre-consumer and post-consumer materials, in a product that otherwise would have been discarded.