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MetricCircular materials and waste

Recycled and secondary material input

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Recycled, reused, or other secondary material input used to manufacture products, services, or packaging, reported by named material class as an absolute quantity and, where supported, as a share of the matching total input-material denominator.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Physical secondary-material input during the reporting period
Aggregation
Recompute compatible shares; never mix profiles, mass and volume, or overlapping classes
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Circular materials and waste
Controlled domain
Materials, circularity and waste
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

The current ESRS profile covers secondary reused or recycled components, intermediate products, and materials used to manufacture products and services, including packaging. The GRI 301 profile covers recycled input under its own source-scoped population and exclusions.

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

    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
Physical secondary-material input 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

  • Source profile and edition, secondary, recycled or reused class, origin, material, use, source, and period
  • Secondary input mass (kg — kilograms, or metric tonnes; 1 metric tonne = 1,000 kilograms)
  • Secondary input volume (L — litres, or m³ — cubic metres; 1 cubic metre = 1,000 litres), if used
  • % of total compatible input-material mass or volume represented by the named input class
  • Compatible denominator, boundary, by-product treatment, overlap control, method, estimate state, and uncertainty

Published dimensions

  • Source profile, secondary class, origin, material, use, quantity basis, denominator, boundary, 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 “Recycled and secondary material input”; 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: Binding ESRS E5-4 and publisher-current GRI 301: Materials 2016 under distinct source profiles; adopted-pending ESRS secondary-resource rows remain edition-labelled.

  • State ESRS secondary-reused-or-recycled or GRI recycled-input profile, governing source, edition, class, origin, material, product or packaging use, and boundary.
  • State internal or external source, by-product treatment, numerator, compatible denominator, overlap control, direct-or-estimated state, entity, and period.
  • For mass, state kilograms or metric tonnes and that one metric tonne equals 1,000 kilograms.
  • For volume, state litres or cubic metres and that one cubic metre equals 1,000 litres; never combine volume with mass.
  • Label any share as parts per hundred of the exact compatible input-material mass or volume denominator and recompute from compatible quantities.

Record-specific limitations

  • Secondary, recycled, and reused classifications are not synonyms and can overlap for the same physical input.
  • The ESRS and GRI source profiles, by-product treatments, eligibility rules, and denominator populations are not interchangeable.
  • The measure does not establish product recyclability, final recycling outcome, quality equivalence, virgin-material displacement, or environmental benefit.

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.