What is GRS (Global Recycled Standard) Certificate? 
GRS Certificate
The Global Recycled Standard (GRS) is a recycled product monitoring mechanism established by the Control Union in 2008. Since 2011, the ownership of GRS has been transferred to the Textile Exchange. GRS was established to ensure the materials and production processes applied to recycled products are environmentally and socially friendly. The monitoring mechanism includes four main management systems: quality management, chemical management, social management and environmental management.  
Quality management
The main purpose of quality management system is to monitor the balance between the materials purchased and the products manufactured. Common mistakes such as inputting non-corresponding material, using recycled material in wrong machine or delivering wrong products to clients can occur. To avoid these mistakes, every supplier in the supply chain of recycled products is required to be GRS-certified to ensure the production process meet standards of GRS.  
Chemical Management 
The chemical management system mainly regulates substances that are harmful to the environment or human health. Currently, the list of regulated substances includes those specified by REACH and RoHS. Therefore, materials, dyes, solvents, and spinning oil containing harmful substances on these lists are not allowed to be used in production processes of GRS-certified products. 
Social Management
In addition to complying with local laws regarding salary, and working hours, the social management system also establishes standards to monitor the working environment for employees. These standards monitor aspects such as drinking water, fire facility inspection, fire drills and more. 
Environment Management
The environmental management system is responsible for regulating whether wastewater, exhaust gas and waste were properly treated before being discharged or discarded.  Additionally, a transaction certificate (TC) should be provided for every transaction related to manufacturing GRS-certified products. The function of TC is to prove that a product is manufactured following GRS standards. 
GRS certificate provide a fair and objective monitoring mechanism that allows costumers, retailers and brand clients to clearly understand that the composition and production processes of GRS-certified products are environmentally and socially friendly. 
 

Issue Time:		2024-06-15
Expire Time:		2024-08-01