INTENT
Living Products efficiently use natural resources and generate zero waste during the manufacturing process by eliminating source waste, decreasing waste production and implementing ways to use waste in a closed loop cycle.
REQUIREMENTS
Living Products efficiently use natural resources and generate zero waste during the manufacturing process. By eliminating waste production and implementing ways to use waste in a closed loop cycle, manufacturers must do one of the following:
- Demonstrate that the waste stream from manufacturing the product is achieving 100% diversion from landfill.
- Meet a minimum overall diversion rate of 90% and create new waste Handprints outside the product waste stream that divert an equivalent amount of the remaining waste from the landfill.
CHANGES FROM LPC 1.1 TO 2.0
LPC 2.0 requires that manufacturers truly achieve zero waste from production, requiring that manufacturers either achieve 100% diversion from landfill, or achieve a minimum of 90% with the opportunity to make Waste Handprints to offset the final 10%+. Waste Handprints are a new opportunity for manufacturers to achieve the more stringent requirement of 100% waste diversion and encourage creativity outside of the waste Footprint of the product.
A new Exception recognizes the importance of increasing material efficiency in demonstrating waste avoidance in manufacturing.
