Renewable Materials Use (RnwMtl)

Manufacturing With the Right Stuff

Description | Indicators | Scoring Criteria | Definitions | Issues

These attributes form the basis for the scoring in the next section.

1) Percent post industrial recycled content
2) Percent post consumer recycled content (includes reused, refurbished and salvaged)
3) Percent biobased content
4) Certifications on entire product
            FSC Pure
            FSC-Mixed
            FSC-Recycled
5) Biobased characteristics of specific contents

  1. Not Renewable
  2. Agricultural - Non certified
  3. Agricultural - Offset GMO free
  4. Agricultural - Offset sustainable - Other
  5. Agricultural - Offset sustainable - Working Landscape Certificates
  6. Agricultural - Organic - Certified
  7. Agricultural - Organic - Non certified
  8. Agricultural Waste - Non certified (wheat straw & other crop residue)
  9. Agricultural Waste - Sustainable
  10. Non Timber Forestry - Non certified (cork, nuts, etc)
  11. Non Timber Forestry - Sustainable - Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
  12. Forestry - Non certified
  13. Forestry - Sustainable - Canadian Standards Association (CSA)
  14. Forestry - Sustainable - Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
  15. Forestry - Sustainable - Other
  16. Forestry - Sustainable - Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
  17. Forestry - Sustainable - American Tree Farm System (ATFS)

6) Source of recycled content
All questions are repeated for packaging

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