The Cradle to Cradle Certified program takes a comprehensive approach to evaluating the design of a product and the manufacturing process. The program assesses a product’s safety to humans, the environment and design for future life cycles and provides guidelines to help businesses implement the Cradle to Cradle framework. This framework focuses on using safe materials that can be disassembled and recycled as technical nutrients or composted as biological nutrients.
Productd are assessed for Material Health, Material Reutilization, Renewable Energy Use, Water Stewardship, and Social Responsibility.