GreenCircle’s Recycled Content Verification Process

Our ISO 17065 compliant process ensures that recycled content claims are accurate, truthful, and consistent:

How Does GreenCircle Verify Recycled Content?

GreenCircle’s Recycled Content certification demonstrates an organization’s commitment to reuse materials in an effort to support circular economy as well as reduce their reliance on virgin materials. GreenCircle follows ISO 14021 and FTC standards on recycled content claims.

GreenCircle conducts a thorough review of the actual bills of material/recipes for a product, raw material purchases, the organization's supply chain (chain of custody), production, and a visual confirmation of raw materials used via a site audit.

GreenCircle validates the source of the recycled materials and distinguishes the recycled content of the raw materials to be either pre- and/or post-consumer content in accordance with internationally accepted definitions (as defined in ISO 14021).

Using this methodology, GreenCircle then provides a certified percentage of pre-and post-consumer recycled content (percent by weight) within the product or raw material. This is verified by conducting a mass balance analysis to ensure that the recycled content percentage is consistently used in the product.

This process ensures accuracy, consistency and authenticity of recycled content claims. GreenCircle's Recycled Content certification is ISO 17065 compliant and the most rigorous certification in the market, making it the gold standard in transparency.

*GreenCircle is endorsed by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) for conducting reclaimer audits as part of the APR PCR Certification Program. GreenCircle’s Recycled Content certification has also been included in Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly Program and Wayfair’s Shop Sustainably.