Improving plastic packaging circularity
An industry roadmap for recyclate quality specifications
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The lack of defined quality standards for mechanical recyclates hampers the supply chain efficiency and industry alignment that is required to meet voluntary and legislative requirements for recycled content in consumer products. To address this, amongst other initiatives, the supply chain should collectively establish pragmatic and industry-aligned recyclate quality specifications that accelerate circularity targets. The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, Eunomia Research and Consulting Ltd, have collaborated with stakeholders to demonstrate the feasibility of creating harmonised specifications for quality recyclates. This work has shown the potential for achieving such alignment as a foundation to create a stronger market for secondary plastics worldwide.
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The lack of defined quality standards for mechanical recyclates hampers the supply chain efficiency and industry alignment that is required to meet voluntary and legislative requirements for recycled content in consumer products. To address this, amongst other initiatives, the supply chain should collectively establish pragmatic and industry-aligned recyclate quality specifications that accelerate circularity targets. The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, Eunomia Research and Consulting Ltd, have collaborated with stakeholders to demonstrate the feasibility of creating harmonised specifications for quality recyclates. This work has shown the potential for achieving such alignment as a foundation to create a stronger market for secondary plastics worldwide.
The path to circularity for the secondary plastics industry
Currently, there are no common recyclate specifications or consensuses in the European market to align the secondary plastics industry. Without consistent target specifications for quality recyclate for circular packaging, there will not be enough material to meet the recycled content demand. While the market awaits the full impact of other complementary measures such as design for recycling to be realised., we urgently need to produce recyclate quality target specifications and associated bale specifications to develop the market.
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