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MetricCircular materials and waste

Reclaimed and reused products and packaging

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Products and packaging reclaimed during the reporting period as a share of the same product category sold, with count-or-mass basis, rejected-and-recalled exclusions, and reuse or recycling pathways retained separately where available.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Products reclaimed and products sold during the reporting period
Aggregation
Recompute compatible shares; never double count collection totals and pathway subsets
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Circular materials and waste
Controlled domain
Materials, circularity and waste
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

End-of-use products and packaging collected on behalf of or attributable to the reporting organization under the declared source profile. Rejected and recalled items are excluded, and collection, reuse, and recycling pathways remain separate.

Cross-library identity

Library mappings and variants

These links compare quantity, population, boundary, period, unit, denominator, aggregation, dimensions, and method edition. Partial relationships are navigation aids only and never authorize observation reuse.

Verified source occurrences

Framework coverage

This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.

  • Adopting Disclosure

    GRI Standards

    GRI 301-3
    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    Files published 19 June 2025; entry point dated 23 June 2025
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Component Of
    Mapping outcome
    Cross Library Link
    Source locator
    GRI 301-3, paragraph a; taxonomy entry point dated 23 June 2025
    Open official framework source
  • Adopting Disclosure

    GRI Standards

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    2016 edition; effective 1 July 2018; publisher file retrieved 15 August 2026
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    Edition and rights pages 1–2; Disclosures 301-1 to 301-3 pages 8–10; glossary pages 11–12
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Products reclaimed and products sold during the reporting period

Unit meaning: This metric is reported as a structured table; each field carries the unit stated in the table fields below.

Table fields and units

  • Product or packaging row, product category, material, collection actor, geography, scheme, and period
  • Pathway (reclaimed, collected, reused, recycled, or other) and total-or-destination-subset state
  • Reclaimed quantity (units of the named category, or kg — kilograms / metric tonnes on a named mass basis)
  • Eligible sold quantity (same count or mass basis; rejected and recalled products excluded)
  • % of the named product category sold and reclaimed, basis, method, source, estimate state, and cohort limitation

Published dimensions

  • Product category, product-or-packaging row, pathway, quantity basis, sold population, scheme, and period

Disclosure method

Formula information

Status
Not applicable
Formula type
Structured Disclosure

Disclosure form

No single formula

Populate the structured fields from qualifying source observations and retain each field-level unit, boundary, status, and method; do not collapse the disclosure into one calculated value.

Verified sources

Evidence and status sources

Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.

Measurement evidence

  • Measurement evidenceChecked 15 August 2026

    GRI 301: Materials 2016

    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    2016 edition; effective 1 July 2018; publisher file retrieved 15 August 2026
    Locator
    Edition and rights pages 1–2; Disclosures 301-1 to 301-3 pages 8–10; glossary pages 11–12

    Supports: Official publisher reference linked specifically to the Sustopedia metric “Reclaimed and reused products and packaging”; interpret it with the source-edition basis and limitations shown on this page.

    Open official source

Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: Publisher-current GRI 301: Materials 2016 Disclosure 301-3 provides the source-scoped reclaimed profile; binding ESRS E5-5 supplies related take-back context but not the same percentage.

  • Name product or packaging row, product category, material, collection actor, geography, scheme, reporting entity, period, and source edition.
  • State reclaimed, collected, reused, recycled, or other pathway and whether a row is a total or destination subset.
  • State numerator and eligible sold denominator on the same count or named mass basis and exclude rejected and recalled items.
  • Label the share as parts per hundred of the named product category sold during the period on the declared basis.
  • Aggregate compatible quantities before recalculating and disclose measurement or estimate state, method, source, and cohort limitation.

Record-specific limitations

  • Reclaimed means collected for potential reuse or recycling and does not prove a final treatment outcome.
  • Products sold during the period may not be the same physical cohort reclaimed during that period.
  • Count and mass bases, product categories, products and packaging, schemes, periods, and pathway subsets are non-interchangeable.

Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.

Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.