What industries can do GRS certification for GRS certification? How can GRS be traced in the future?

The GRS (Global Recycling Standard) certification is an international, voluntary and complete product standard, which aims at the implementation of supply chain manufacturers' restrictions on product recycling/renewable ingredients, regulatory chain control, social responsibility and environmental regulations, and chemicals, and is certified by a third-party certification agency. The goal of GRS is to ensure that the statements on the relevant products are correct and that the products are produced in a good working environment.

All units involved in the production and trade of GRS products must be certified by GRS (that is, the whole supply chain needs to be certified by GRS)

It includes the recycled materials containing at least 20% of all products processed, manufactured, packaged, labeled, sold and used. At present, the certification is mainly concentrated on enterprises in textile and clothing, such as recycled bottle pieces, recycled polyester filament, recycled polyester staple, recycled fabrics, recycled clothing, etc. All standard products must show the percentage of recycled components and be labeled with appropriate GRS signs.

Nowadays, GRS has been ignited by brands such as ZARA, H&M, ADDIAS, Uniqlo, NDKE, IKEA, GAP and other brands in the entire industry chain, which is connected to all supply chains (from raw materials - production and processing - trade brands), from brand manufacturers to fabric shops, and has become popular in more and more industries, such as paper products, packaging industry, plastic products industry, metal products industry and other supply chains that can contain renewable materials industry.

GRS certification audit content:

1. Requirements for recycled materials and supply chain:

The product renewable ingredients greater than 20% are the access conditions for certification; If the product is planned to hang the GRS certification mark, the proportion of recycled ingredients shall be greater than 50%;

2. Chemical Management System (CMS):

Chemical management guidelines and policies used in the production of GRS products;

3. Social Responsibility Management System (CSR):

If the enterprise has successfully passed the BSCI, SA8000 and other social responsibilityaudits, it can be exempted from the assessment after passing the assessment by the certification authority;

4. Environmental Management System (EMS):

Whether the company has an environmental management system and controls the use of energy, water, wastewater, waste, etc.

GRS certification standards are as follows:

A) Traceability criteria

Guidelines and special instructions on product transportation and use of certificates.

Guidelines on the control of purchased products.

Rules related to management.

Criteria related to quality control.

Criteria related to the calculation of the quantity ratio between GRS materials and non GRS materials using the total amount balance calculation method.

B) Environmental standards

Guidelines related to environmental management.

C) Social responsibility

Guidelines on workers' health and safety.

Guidelines relating to workers' rights.

Guidelines related to training.

Guidelines related to health, hazards and first aid.

GRS label grade and sign application, and guidelines related to label grade and sign application.

Full official name of TC: Transaction Certificate; The Chinese name is: Transaction Certificate; As the literal meaning is the same, it is a proof of the true transaction between the buyer and seller of GRS products.

Enterprises that have passed the GRS certification generate real transactions of GRS products. Generally, customers will ask us to issue TC to them at this time to prove that the traded products are GRS compliant renewable products.

Documents required for TC application:

Supplier materials: GRS certificate, TC original, purchase invoice, purchase delivery note

Outsourcing materials (if any): GRS certificate, processing contract, processing invoice, processing delivery note

Sales materials: sales contract, sales invoice, sales delivery note

Market situation of renewable products:

In today's environmental situation, environmental protection and regeneration is an urgent and eternal theme. It is understood that Adidas will fully use recycled polyester fiberin 2024; Zara will fully use renewable sustainable materials by 2025; H&M will fully use 100% recycled materials by 2030; IKEA promises to use only renewable or recycled materials for all products by 2030; Google said it would use recycled materials in all hardware products by 2022; Volvo promises to use at least 25% recycled plastics by 2025; Applepromises to end mining, and its products will use 100% recycled materials

In the past 50 years, the amount of plastic used in the world has increased 20 times, and the 20 times increase will be completely replaced by recycled materials in the next 5-10 years. The market will be unprecedented.