RECYCLED CONTENT | MATERIALS
An increasing array of compounds containing higher amounts of recycled content are now on offer for injection moulders and other processors helping to meet sustainability targets. Mark Holmes reports on recent developments
Producers ramp up recycled compound offerings
Manufacturers of plastic compounds are rising to the circular economy challenge and developing new materials that are incorporating increasing propor- tions of post-consumer recycled and post-industrial recycled plastics. While meeting sustainability goals, these compounds can match virgin materials in terms of mechanical properties. Industry bodies are providing support and tools to assist converters to switch to recycled materials, while brand owners and end-users continue to drive the change to meet their own sustainability targets. EuPC, the European Plastics Converters Associa-
tion, has partnered with the Circularise Plastics Group – currently composed of Covestro, Domo Chemicals and Circularise – to cooperate in the development of a tool to monitor the use of recycled plastics by converters in Europe. In the context of the EU Plastics Strategy, the European Commission has launched a pledge to increase the use of recycled content to 10m tonnes by 2025. To address this, Circularise Plastics Group launched an Open Standard for Sustainability and Transparency based on blockchain technology and zero-knowl- edge proofs.
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EuPC set up a tool to collect the use of recyclates by converters based on their production. The tool is called MORE – Monitoring Recyclates for Europe. MORE is designed to ensure that faithful and consistent data collection, through a common approach, on the use of recyclates is achieved by converters that will feed the surveys contained in MORE. The volumes reported in MORE are steadily growing every month and new plastic converting companies will join the system in the years to come. “With the development of the MORE platform, EuPC emphasised the importance of creating an efficient infrastructure for monitoring the flow of data about the use of recycled plastics,” says Jordi de Vos, Circularise’s co-founder. “We are happy to support its development with our technology and are looking forward to this collaboration.” The EuPC strategy aligns with Circularise’s mission to enable transparency of material flows while safeguarding data privacy and confidentiality. As a part of the broader objective of this collabora- tion, signatories specifically aim to facilitate the development of a digital platform to monitor the rate of plastics recycling activities in Europe and
Main image: Polyolefin compounds are increasingly incorporating post-consumer and post-indus- trial recycled materials
April 2021 | INJECTION WORLD 29
IMAGE: MESSE DÜSSELDORF/CTILLMANN
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