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Eco Mark Product Category No.138“Building Products (Materials for Supplies) Version1.10” Certification Criteria
Category A-1 Stone Materials for Construction
Japan Environment Association
Eco Mark Office
1. Purpose of establishing criteria
omitted2. Applicable Scope*Japan Industrial Standard JIS A 5411 “Terrazzo” (when used as a wall material, a floor
material or otherwise as a building material)
A natural stone-like artificial material which is produced by mixing cement with stonechips, letting it harden and then giving surface treatment. A terrazzo that uses freshlycollected natural stones as chips shall be excluded.
* Construction materials that are made by recycling of used natural stones and/or off-cut of
natural stones (wall material, etc.)
Note 1.

“Tile, brick and concrete slab” shall fall under Eco Mark Product Category
No.109 “Tile and block.”

Note 2.

“Imitation stone” (excluding terrazzo) shall fall under Eco Mark ProductCategory No.131 “Civil engineering products.”

Note 3.

Anything that is categorized as an “imitation rock” shall be excluded.

3. Terminology
Omitted.
4. Certification Criteria and Certification Procedure4-1. Environmental Criteria and Certification Procedure(1)

The Product shall contain any or all of the recycled chip materials listed in Table 1 either
alone or in combination and the content of such recycled materials shall be no less than
50% of the total mass of the Product.
Table 1 Recycled chip materials
Recycled chip materials
Used natural stone
Off-cut of natural stone
Gypsum (including gypsum generated at desulphurization plant)
Glass
Plastic

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The Applicant shall fill in the names of recycled materials and their respective contentson the Attached Certificate form and submit it together with the raw materials
certifications issued by the respective raw material suppliers.
(2)

The Product shall conform to the standards concerning elusion of heavy metals and otherhazardous substances that are set forth in Attached Table 4 of the enforcement
regulation of the Soil Contamination Countermeasures Law (2002 Ministerial Order No.
29 of the Ministry of the Environment) with respect to cadmium, lead, hexavalentchromium, arsenic, mercury and selenium among the specified hazardous substances
listed therein. Provided however this criterion does not apply to any Products that only
consist of used natural stone and off-cut of natural stone.
[Certificate Procedure]
For the elusion of applicable substances from the product, the results of tests conducted byan own company or a third party testing body shall be submitted. In case to conduct tests
for each material, for the material which does not clearly contain the applicable
substances, the certification certified by a material business or an applicant which shows
the product contains no applicable substances is acceptable. However, for recycledmaterials, tests shall be conducted.

(3)

The Product shall not contain asbestos.
The Product that is made of gypsum board recycled from the waste generated inconnection with building demolition shall be made free of products that are known tohave contained asbestos, arsenic, or cadmium through the process of sorting and removal.
On the subject of specific waste gypsum boards to be eliminated, the Applicant shouldrefer to “On the Inclusion of Asbestos in Gypsum Boards) published by the Gypsum
Board Industry Association, “Proper Handling of Hazardous Substances and the Like
Associated with Building Demolition and the Like” published by the Construction
By-products Recycling Promotion Conference, and other pertinent documents.
No analysis shall be required if the Product is made of gypsum board that is recycledfrom the waste coming out of the manufacturing process of gypsum board processing
plants or generated at a new building construction site, because the recycled material
does not contain asbestos.
[Certification Procedure]
Applicants shall state in the attached certificate form the conformance to this criterion. In
the event that products which are found out to have contained asbestos, arsenic, andcadmium are segregated and removed, the applicants shall report a specific method forsegregation and removal. By the way, in the case of judgment by analytical investigation,

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the applicants shall report that the material does not contain not more than 0.1% of six
types of asbestos including Tremolite, which shall be evidenced by a method that
conforms to “JIS A 1481: Determination of asbestos in building material products” (2008)
shown in Instruction Letter No. 0821002 of the Labour Standards Bureau of the Ministryof Health, Labour and Welfare dated August 21, 2006 titled “On the Analysis Method ofAsbestos Content in Building Materials.
(4)

In manufacturing the applied product, related environmental laws and regulations andpollution control agreement (hereinafter referred to as the “Environmental Laws, etc.”)
must be followed with respect to air pollution, water contamination, noise, offensive odor,and emission of hazardous substances in the area where the plant performing the final
manufacturing process is located.
In addition, the state of compliance with the Environmental Laws, etc. for the past five
years from the date of application (whether there is any violation) must be reported. If
there is any violation, proper remedies and preventive measures shall have been alreadytaken, and the related Environmental Laws, etc. must thereafter be followed
appropriately.
[Certification Procedure]With respect to the compliance with the Environmental Laws, etc. in the area where theplant performing the final manufacturing process is located, a certificate issued by therepresentative of the business of manufacturing the applied product or the relevant plant
manager (entry or attachment of a list of names of the Environmental Laws, etc.) mustbe submitted. (Entry example 3)
In addition, the applicants shall report whether there is any violation in the past fiveyears, including a violation subject to administrative punishment or administrative
guidance, and if there is, the following documents in a and b must be submitted:
a. With respect to the fact of violation, guidance documents from administrative
agencies (including order of correction and warning) and copies of written answers(including those reporting causes and results of correction) to such documents(clearly indicating a series of communication);b. Following materials (copies of recording documents, etc.) concerning themanagement system for compliance with the Environmental Laws, etc. in 1)-5):
1) List of the Environmental Laws, etc. related to the area where the plant islocated;
2) Implementation system (organization chart with roles, etc.);
3) Bylaws stipulating retention of recording documents;
4) Recurrence prevention measures (future preventive measures)
5) State of implementation based on the recurrence prevention measures (check
results of on-site inspection, etc. as compliance condition).

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The Product shall be accompanied by a manual relating to installation, use, maintenance,disassembly, disposal and recycling that is available for reading by the builder and thebuilding owner.
[Certification Procedure]
The Applicant shall state in the Attached Certificate form the conformance (or lackthereof) to this criteria. In addition, the Applicant shall submit a sample of a manual
relating to installation, use, maintenance, disassembly, disposal and recycling. Regarding
a part of the product’s lifecycle from installation to recycling which is not included in themanual, the reason shall be indicated.

(6)

The Product shall be again recyclable after use.
[Certification Procedure]
The Applicant shall explain how main materials are recycled.

(7) The product shall have no flame retardant of Polybrominated biphenyl (PBB),Polybrominated diphenylether (PBDE) or short-chain chlorinated paraffin (the number ofchained C is 10 to 13 and contained chloride concentration is 50% or over) added asformulated components.
[Certification Procedure]Compliance (or lack thereof) with this item shall be indicated in the Attached Certificate.
In the case of using flame retardant, the Applicant shall fill in the names of chemicalsubstances on the Attached Certificate.

4-2. Quality Criteria and Certification Procedure(8)

For non-burned products made by glass and concrete mixture, alkali-aggregate reactivity
reduction measures shall be conducted in accordance with the alkali-aggregate reactivity
reduction measures (August 2002, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport). For
the products to be burned after mixing glass, applied detoxifying treatment, and used fornon-burned products, detoxifying tests are not required.
[Certification Procedure]
For non-burned products made by glass and concrete mixture, it shall conform of thealkali-aggregate reactivity reduction measures, and test results of detoxifying tests forconfirmation/reduction measures of alkali-aggregate reactivity by JIS A 1145 (Chemicalmethod), JIS A 1146 (Mortar bar method) or JIS A 5308 (Ready-mixed concrete, Appendix
7&8), explanatory documents regarding to reduction measures, etc. shall be submitted.
For the products to be burned after mixing glass, applied detoxifying treatment, and used
for non-burned products, it shall be indicated in the Attached Certificate form. For theproducts not made by glass and concrete mixture, it shall be indicated in the Attached4/5

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Certificate form.

(9)

Terrazzo shall conform to JIS A 5411. With respect to other Products, the quality shallhave been confirmed based on official quality standards, in-house standards or the like.
[Certification Procedure]
The Applicant shall submit a document certifying the test results and other data to show
conformance to the applicable JIS standards, in-house standards or the like. In the event
the Product or the manufacturing site of the Product has been certified by JIS or the like,
submission of a copy of certificate issued by JIS or the like shall suffice for the aforesaid
purpose.

5. Product Classification, Indication and Others
omittedMay 5, 2007

Established (Version 1.0)

November 1, 2007

Revised (4-1.(2)(6) Version1.1)

August 21, 2008

Revised (4-1.(3)(5) Version1.3)

March 15, 2010

Extension of Term of Validity

March 1, 2011

Revised (5. (2) Version1.6)

January 15, 2012

Revised (D-1 and 2 added, Version1.7)

June 15, 2012

Revised (4-1.(7) Version1.9)

March 15, 2016

Extension of Expiration

April 1, 2019

Revised (Mark indication)

March 1, 2020

Revised (B-1:4-1.(1) Version1.10)

March 1, 2021

Extension of Expiration

December 31, 2027

Expiration date

The Certification Criteria for the Product Category will be revised when necessary.

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