North American tile mortar and grout have their own environmental declarations
In April 2016 the Tile Council announced industry-wide environmental product declarations for tile mortar and tile grout made in North America, based on a Thinkstep analysis of more than 2.25 billion kilograms produced a year. On 19 October 2016 a second release said UL had certified those declarations. The October release calls them the first generic declarations for tile mortars and grouts available globally.
What the declarations disclose
The October release says the tile, mortar, and grout declarations show carbon footprint and contributions to smog, ozone depletion, abiotic resource depletion, acidification, and eutrophication. Read together, they describe an installed assembly rather than the tile alone. The analysis runs from raw-material extraction through end of life.
Who supplied the data
The October release lists the manufacturers whose production was in the data: Ardex, Bexel, Bostik, Crest, Custom Building Products, HB Fuller/TEC, Interceramic, Laticrete, MAPEI, and Cemix/Texrite. The release says the declarations can be used toward LEED v4, Green Globes, the International Green Construction Code, ASHRAE 189.1, and ICC 700.
Source
Fetched 2026-10-11 from Tile Council mortar and grout EPD release. Also fetched 2026-10-11: Tile Council April 2016 mortar and grout EPD announcement. The sentences above follow those pages. They are not a contractor promise.
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