♻️Recoverability settings
In the UP Scorecard, a product is considered to be effectively recovered if it is reused, composted, or recycled, which means that a product fulfills the following:
recoverable, i.e. designed for reuse, recycling, or composting, and
collected and processed, i.e. the infrastructure to reuse, recycle, or compost the specified product is available.
Except for a few products and materials for which mature recovery systems are in place, the tool considers that products are not designed for recycling or composting and that the infrastructure is not available. For materials considered recoverable, regional recoverability averages are used.
It is therefore up to the user to adjust settings for composting and recycling to reflect their local situations (see Adjusting recovery settings) The tool lets you specify whether:
your product is designed for optimal composting or recycling
you have access to the infrastructures that can properly handle the composting or recycling of this product
If both conditions are fulfilled, then the product is considered recovered and the recovery score can improve. Below are the composting and recycling settings that can be customized.
Compostability
All materials are by default not compostable.
You can change the compostability when creating a product or customizing an existing product, by specifying if the product is certified as compostable, according to the following labels:
CMA Commercially Accepted Products List
BPI (BioProducts Institute)
Availability of composting facilities
Availability of composting facilities: by default not available.
If your municipality is equipped with an industrial composting center, you can specify this in the tool. This can be done on the result dashboard page or when editing a portfolio.
Recyclability
Only certain materials are considered optimized for recycling by default, reflecting the maturity of recycling chains (glass, aluminum, steel, and bottles and jugs made from #1 PET and #2 HDPE). You can change this when creating a product or customizing an existing product by specifying if the product is optimized for recycling or not.
Availability of recycling facilities
Available by default for certain materials (most common ones: glass, aluminum, steel, and bottles and jugs made from #1 PET and #2 HDPE, and uncoated paper and board)
All other materials: by default not available
If your municipality is equipped with facilities that can process certain types of materials outside the most common ones, you can specify this in the tool on the result dashboard page, or when editing a portfolio.
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