Qualification for LEED Credit MR 4.1 and MR 4.2 Recycled Content
Intent
Increase demand for building products that incorporate recycled content materials, hereby reducing the impacts resulting from extraction and processing of virgin materials.
Requirements
Use materials with recycled content such that the sum of
postconsumer recycled content plus one-half of the pre-consumer
content constitutes an additional 10% beyond MR Credit 4.1
(total of 20%, based on cost) of the total value of the materials
in the project. (click
here to see the full text of the requirement)
Sloan
While plumbing and mechanical equipment does not contribute to these
credits, Sloan Valve Company follows the intent of these
credits by
utilizing recycled and reclaimed materials in the manufacture
of our
valves. The brass used in our products had a life as something
else before
becoming a water-saving device, such as a car part or boat
propeller.
Sloan uses reclaimed brass as a way to preserve the environment
by
reducing or eliminating the need to mine virgin material
from the earth.
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