Who is Textile Exchange?
The Textile Exchange, formerly known as The Organic Exchange, is a non-profit business organization focused on facilitating the growth of a global organic cotton industry. The members of the Textile Exchange, including Coop, Cutter & Buck, Hess Natur, Marks and Spencer, Mountain Equipment Cooperative, Nike, Norm Thompson, Otto Versand, Patagonia and Timberland have decided to integrate organic cotton into their product offerings.
What is Recycled Claim Standard ?
The RCS provides companies with a tool to ensure that final products are labeled with accurate recycled content amounts. The Standard includes two elements to provide this assurance:
Input materials are checked by qualified certification bodies to make sure they are actually reclaimed from the waste stream. For this, the RCS relies on internationally accepted definitions of ?reclaimed? and ?recycled? from the International Standards Organization (ISO).
In addition, these independent parties also check each facility and each shipment from the recycling on to the final production stage to make sure that recycled goods are kept separate from virgin materials and labeled properly before moving on to the next step. Tracking materials by a third-party provides external accountability to common product claims, such as ?made with recycled polyester?.
The RCS can be used in any industry, and for any reclaimed material. The Standard provides for more accurate product labeling, establishes
Control Union and RCS
CU Inspections & Certifications India Private Limited has been licensed as a Certification Body who can offer RCS certification from 21 December 2013.
To know about the fee and other related details kindly send your request on the information form available on this website.
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