Global Recycled Standards (GRS), Exploring Recycling FashionIssuing time:2023-12-07 08:44 Textile Exchange (TE) is a global non-profit organization that promotes the positive impact of the fashion and textile industryon climate change. It guides more and more brands, manufacturers, and farmers to produce more purposefully from the beginning of the supply chain. The textile exchange has established several important industry standards, including the Global Recycled Standard (GRS). GRS is an international, voluntary, and comprehensive product standard that specifies third-party certification requirements to verify the content of recycled materials in products, regulatory chains, social and environmental practices, and chemical restrictions. It relies on the basis of the Content Claim Standard (CCS), which is the regulatory chain for all textile exchange standards, ensuring that the identity of the declared material is maintained from raw materials to final products. GRS Certification requirements GRS certification requires products to contain at least 20% recycled materials, and certification is required for each production stage. Although GRS certification is currently mainly focused on the textile and clothing industry, it is not limited to any particular industry. Any recyclable material, such as metal, ceramic, or wood, is applicable as long as the product meets the entry threshold of containing at least 20% recycled materials. That is to say, this standard can be used with any recycled input material and can be applied to any supply chain. The use of chemicals that may cause harm is prohibited in GRS products. This standard applies to the complete supply chain, confirming chemical restrictions, environmental principles, social requirements, and labeling on the company's production lines. Through this process, the recycling content of the product has been verified and the utilization rate has been improved, providing customers with a tool for making wise decisions, greatly reducing the harmful effects of production on humans and the environment, and ensuring the actual sustainability of the product. In addition to environmental requirements, GRS also has social requirements that address issues such as social policies, record keeping, forced labor, child labor, freedom of association, discrimination, harassment and abuse, health and safety, wages and benefits, employment conditions, and working hours. Through GRS, the company has essentially reaffirmed its commitment to harmless materials through independent third parties and supports the circular economy by using such materials to produce new products, minimizing environmental impact and waste. |