Introduction
简介
The Recycled Claim Standard (RCS) is an international, voluntary, full product standard that sets requirements for third-party certification of Recycled input and chain of custody. The goal of the RCS is to increase use of Recycled materials.
回收含量声明标准（RCS）是一项国际、自愿和全面的产品标准，规定了回收内容和产销监管链的第三方认证要求。RCS 的目标是增加产品中回收材料的使用。
The objectives of the RCS are:
RCS 的目标是：
Alignment of definitions across multiple applications.
统一多种应用的定义。
Track and trace Recycled input materials.
追溯可回收投入材料。
Provide customers (both brands and consumers) with a tool to make informed decisions.
为客户（品牌商和消费者）提供一个做出明智决定的工具。
Provide assurance that materials in the final product are actually Recycled and processed more sustainably.
确保最终产品中的材料更加可持续性的回收利用和处理。
The Recycled Claim Standard is intended for use with any product that contains at least 5% Recycled Material. Each stage of production is required to be certified, beginning at the recycling stage and ending at the last seller in the final business-to-business transaction. Material Collection and Material Concentration sites are subject to self-declaration, document collection, and on-site visits.
回收含量声明标准适用于任何至少含有 5％回收材料的产品。从回收阶段开始，每个生产阶段都必须经过认证，并最终在企业对企业交易中结束于最后的卖方。材料收集和材料集中地点需要经过自我声明、文件收集和现场访问。
The RCS does not address social or environmental aspects of processing and manufacturing, quality or legal compliance.
RCS 不解决加工及制造环节中所涉及的社会责任和环境方面要求和质量或合法性问题。
The RCS uses the ISO 14021 definition of Recycled Content, with interpretations based on the US Federal Trade Commission Green Guides; the intention is to comply with the most widely recognized and stringent definitions.
RCS 采用了 ISO 14021 回收含量定义，基于美国联邦贸易委员会绿色指南的解释；旨在遵守最广泛认可和严格的定义。
Section A – General Information
A 部分 - 基本信息
A1 – Definitions
A1 - 定义
The Content Claim Standard has a complete set of the terms used in TE standards. The following are specific to the RCS, and are important in defining the verification requirements for the input materials for recycling:
内容声明标准中包含一套完整的纺织品交易所标准术语。以下内容特定于 RCS，在定义回收投入材料的验证要求方面非常重要：
Material Collection
材料收集
Material Collection refers to the point in the recycling lifecycle when a Reclaimed Material is collected after its original use has ended (i.e.: it would have otherwise gone into the waste stream).
材料收集是指回收材料在其原始使用结束后的收集，是回收周期中的一个时间点（即：否则将进入废物流程）。
Entities involved in Material Collection may include, but are not limited to:
涉及材料收集的实体可能包括但不限于：
Individuals who collect Post-Consumer Materials for sale to brokers
收集售给中间商的消费后材料的个人
Government organizations (e.g.: municipalities) that offer curbside recycling or operate transfer stations
提供路边回收或经营转运站的政府机构（例如：市政府）
Brokers that purchase Pre/Post-Consumer Material from individuals, municipalities, or commercial operations for re-sale
从个人、市政或商业企业处购买消费前/后材料用以转售的中间商
Commercial operations that collect their own Pre-Consumer Material from
manufacturing operations
从制造业处收集消费前材料的商业经营单位
Commercial operations that collect Post-Consumer Material (e.g.: retail stores)
收集消费后材料的商业经营单位（例如：零售店）
Material Concentration
材料集中
Material Concentration refers to the point in the recycling lifecycle when a waste material receives primary handling. This may include, but is not limited to, sorting, screening, basic contaminant removal, or baling. Material is still unprocessed at this stage, meaning it has not been physically or chemically altered beyond basic handling (e.g.: screening, crushing, or washing).
材料集中是指在循环周期中，废料接受基本处理时的时间点。可能包括但不限于排序、筛选、基本污染物去除或打捆。在这个阶段，材料仍然未经处理，这意味着除基本处理（例如：筛选、粉碎或洗涤）之外，尚未发生物理或化学改变。
Material Recycling
材料回收
Material Recycling refers to the point in the recycling lifecycle when a Reclaimed Material is processed into a Recycled Material.
材料回收是指在循环周期中，将回收的材料处理成回收材料的时间点。
Post-Consumer Material
消费后材料
Material generated by households or by commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in their role as end-users of the product that can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes returns of materials from the distribution chain.
由家庭或商业、工业和机构设施作为最终产品用户产生的、不能再用于其预期用途的材料。包括从分销链中回收的材料。
Pre-Consumer Material
消费前材料
Material diverted from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Excluded is the reutilization of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it.
在制造过程中从废物流中转移出的材料。排除返工、回收或在处理过程中产生的，并可在产生该过程的同一过程中回收的材料的二次利用。
Reclaimed Material
回收的材料
Material that would have otherwise been disposed of as waste or used for energy recovery, but has instead been collected and reclaimed as a material input, in lieu of new primary material, for a recycling process.
未作为废物处理或用于能量回收，而是作为材料投入而被收集和回收，并代替新的原始材料，用于回收处理的材料。
Recycled Content
回收材料含量
Proportion, by mass, of Recycled Material in products or packaging. Only Pre-Consumer andPost-Consumer Materials shall be considered as Recycled Content.
产品或包装中以质量计的回收材料的比例。只有消费前和消费后材料才被视为回收含量。
Recycled Material
回收材料
Material that has been reprocessed from Reclaimed Material by means of a manufacturing process and made into a final product or into a component for incorporation into a product.
已经通过再处理从制造过程中回收利用，并制成最终产品或组合成产品的材料。
