Re-used and recycled materials
Baseline strategy · No scoreIt replaces virgin resources with recovered components or recycled content when they fulfil function, safety and traceability.
How it works
It replaces virgin resources with recovered components or recycled content when they fulfil function, safety and traceability.
It considers materials and components throughout extraction, manufacture, transport, use, maintenance and recovery to conserve value and reduce impacts.
When does it make sense?
- Before you specify or purchase materials and products
- Where functionally comparable alternatives exist
- With life cycle data and a realistic maintenance and end-of-use plan
How to apply it
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Define what needs resolves "reused and recycled materials" and establish a starting situation.
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Compare alternatives and adapt design to climate, use, regulation, affected people and available resources.
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Apply with clear responsibilities, check the actual result and correct unwanted effects.
Potential benefits
Lower carbon life cycle
Less extraction and toxicity
More retained value
Limitations and precautions
- The result depends on context, design, execution and how it is used and maintained.
- An isolated label does not replace the comparison of the entire system.
- Durability, security, quantity used and end-of-life scenario can change the result.
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