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NORTHBROOK, Ill., July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, UL
Environment, a global leader in environmental validation and standards
development, published the position paper Interpreting Pre-Consumer
Recycled Content Claims, which outlines multi-industry guidelines
regarding the use of pre-consumer recycled content. The paper provides
clearer definitions and guiding principles expressing what constitutes
pre-consumer recycled content and leads the global marketplace towards
best practices for its incorporation into product manufacturing.
"Manufacturers
have historically struggled to understand pre-consumer recycled
content," said Steve Wenc, president of
UL Environment. "Our guidelines are intended to make it easier for
manufacturers to identify and incorporate pre-consumer recycled content,
helping to make recycled content more prevalent in many products and
industries."
The new UL Environment position paper represents a
shift in the common understanding of this type of recycled content and
has process implications across a wide range of industries, including:
chemicals, metals, minerals and plastics. The paper is based on the
concept of industrial ecology, which takes a holistic approach to
examining sustainability in industrial systems and leads to a
well-defined goal of zero-waste manufacturing.
"UL strongly
believes that the foundation of environmental responsibility starts by
creating a common vocabulary," said Wenc. "We are helping to support a
more sustainable economy by providing manufacturers with direction to
achieve greater material reuse and encouraging recycling and reuse of
all waste materials."
To download a copy of the UL Environment
pre-consumer recycled content white paper or learn more about related
testing and certification services, visit http://www.ulenvironment.com/ulenvironment/eng/pages/env/newsroom.
About
UL Environment, Inc.
UL Environment is helping support the
growth and development of sustainable products, services and companies
in the global marketplace through standards development, independent
third-party assessment and certification and knowledge services. UL
Environment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Underwriters Laboratories, a
global leader in conformity assessment that has been testing products
and writing standards for more than a century. UL Environment currently
offers Environmental Claims Validation (ECV), a service testing and
verifying manufacturers' self-declared environmental claims, Sustainable
Products Certification (SPC), a service evaluating and certifying
products to accepted industry standards for environmental sustainability
and Energy Efficiency Certification (EEC), a service certifying
products for compliance with government energy efficiency
specifications. UL Environment is developing additional environmental
standards, as well as training and advisory services to support
organizations in the sustainable products and services industry.