Recycled Content Certification

Recycled content certification evaluates total recycled content, post-consumer, pre-consumer and closed loop recycled content in products.

Advancing sustainability through recycled content

Choosing to include recycled content in your products can support your circular economy strategy. This practice helps reduce reliance on virgin materials, transform waste into useful resources and reduce your environmental footprint.

However, consumers are growing wary of sustainability claims without third-party support due to a rise in greenwashing.

Building trust through recycled content certification

Recycled content certification from UL Solutions helps you showcase sustainability, built on trust. Evaluation according to UL 2702: Sustainability Criteria for Recycled Content in Products, provides substantiation that your customers can believe.

We provide assessment for claims regarding a variety of recycled content, including:

Total recycled content
Post-consumer recycled content
Pre-consumer (post-industrial) recycled content
Closed-loop recycled content

By achieving UL Certification for your sustainability claims, your organization gains differentiation in the market that builds consumer trust and brand reputation.

Recycled content classification

Our recycled content certification program evaluates products against UL 2702. This Standard features a classification system based on the determined weight percentage of recycled content. A greater quantity of validated recycled content yields a higher rating; however, this system does not evaluate the quality of the recycled content.

Minimum recycled content requirements for the classification (wt. - %)

	Classification
Product type	Silver	Gold	Platinum
Mono-material and multi-material products	30	50	80
Assembled products	5	15	25

We can certify these product categories and others for recycled content:

Building materials

Chemicals

Cleaning

Cookware and home products

Electronics

Furniture/furnishings

Juvenile products

Packaging

Paper

Plastics

Toys

Softlines/textile

Build stronger trust with the UL Certified Mark for recycled content

Products that meet the criteria for UL Certification can showcase the UL Certified Mark for recycled content. The Mark enables you to confidently communicate your sustainability efforts to the market, and helps demonstrate the efficiency and integrity of your supply chain.

It’s a powerful symbol of your commitment to product circularity and environmental stewardship, offering benefits such as:

Recognition in industry and governmental green purchasing programs.
Increased visibility among key stakeholders and marketplace demand for your products.
Added credibility through including the UL Certified Mark on packaging and marketing materials.
Inclusion in UL SPOT, a publicly available database used by purchasers to identify products with sustainable attributes certified by an independent third party.

Why choose UL Solutions for recycled content certification?

UL Solutions is a trusted third-party provider with a long-standing history in sustainability. We provide a wide range of sustainability testing and certification services that help manufacturers build trust and confidence in product circularity efforts and reduced environmental impact claims.