Flowchart recycled content
The QA-CER Recycled Content Certification System in a handy visual overview.
The QA-CER Recycled Content certification system applies to:
- Waste sorting and recycling companies of post-consumer waste from plastics, textiles or composites
- Plastic and textile processing companies and composite producers, applying post-industrial and post-consumer waste from plastics
- Assembling companies producing composite products from recycled plastic components or textiles
The QA-CER Recycled Content certificate is issued to a company for the entirety or for parts of its activities.
The QA-CER Recycled Content certificate is issued to a company for the entirety or for parts of its activities.
QA-CER distinguishes 3 certification levels:
Level 1
SYSTEM CERTIFICATE
Certification of the management aspects of the flows and applications of recycled materials.
Level 2
SYSTEM AND PRODUCT CERTIFICATE
Level 2 includes all requirements of level 1 and applies to companies desiring to guarantee the technical specifications of their products, both of the recycled material and the end product.
The company shall clearly describe the products in the scope of the certificate.
additional requirement:
- Product inspection by an accredited organisation
Level 3
SYSTEM AND PRODUCT CERTIFICATE
Level 3 includes all requirements of level 2 with an additional inspection on system level of the
ECO parameters of the product or the recycled material.
addtional requirements:
- The company shall provide evidence of its its conformity with all parameters defined by eco-legislation,e.g. that it has installed sufficient control systems to avoid the presence of substances of very high concern listed by REACH and RoHS.
- Administrative inspection by BQA to assess whether the documented process and laboratory tests on the ECO-parameters are mastered.