sacks. Jagan Mohanraj, Berry bpi’s Innovation Director, said: “Crucially, all of our products have all the necessary technical accreditations to certify they meet the highest industry technical standards, such as the CHSA Refuse Sack Standard, so you can always be confident you will get exactly what you pay for.”
A clear definition
So far, it has been challenging for specifiers, whether buying refuse sacks, building products or packaging, to determine with confidence just how much recycled content has been included. Often, companies claim to be using recycled content purely by taking scrap waste from a particular manufacturing process and feeding it back into the same process. However, this cannot be classed as ‘recycled content’.
The UK’s proposed new plastic tax will draw on the ISO 14021 standard, which defines recycled content as the
proportion of recycled material in a product or packaging. Only pre-consumer and post-consumer materials are considered recycled content on the following basis:
• Pre-consumer material is that which has been diverted from the waste stream during a manufacturing process. This does not include scrap generated in a process that could be reclaimed within the same process that generated it. Pre-consumer material excludes edge trim or web scrap that is directly fed into the same manufacturing process that generated the trim or scrap.
• Post-consumer material is the waste generated by households or by companies, which can no longer be used for its intended purpose. This includes customer returns of material from the distribution chain.
Berry bpi’s black refuse sacks are currently made up of a mixture pre-consumer waste and post-consumer waste. Berry bpi continues to be at the forefront of working with customers to create innovative sustainable new products and to make sure nothing goes to waste.
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