Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services (Bureau Veritas), a global leader in testing, checking, advisory, and certification services, has agreed to provide conformity assessment services to TerraCycle to check the company's recycling operations and adherence to the Textile Exchange's Recycled Claim Standard.
"I am pleased to report that Bureau Veritas has granted certification to TerraCycle for the Recycled Claim Standard (version 2.0) for two of the waste streams in their U.S. operations. TerraCycle's demonstrated conformance to the Recycled Claim Standard is a testament to TerraCycle's competence and commitment within the recycling industry."
- Chuck Rogers, Americas Director, Technical Consulting and Supply Chain Solutions, Bureau Veritas
The Recycled Claim Standard (RCS) is a set of rules and regulations for third-party certification of recycled input and chain of custody based on material mass balance metrics. Bureau Veritas evaluated TerraCycle's current supply chain, recycling process, operating processes, and associated sub-contractors for RCS compliance for mixed flexible packaging and mixed rigid packaging to gain this certification.
"Starting in 2020, TerraCycle began working with Bureau Veritas to define, conduct, and complete independent audits of our US supply chain,"
- Tom Szaky, Founder and CEO of TerraCycle.
They have already been certified in the United States for two main material categories, and they want to repeat this procedure for additional waste streams around the world by 2022. This certification from a global leader in their industry gives our partners extra assurance that the material they send us is never turned into energy or buried in landfills.