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PCEP upgrades pledge from polyolefin industry
The Polyolefin Circular Economy Platform (PCEP) has upgraded its voluntary plastics pledge and commitments after achieving its initial target ahead of schedule. In 2018, PCEP committed
to strong voluntary action for the polyolefin value chain as part of the Circular Plastics Alliance and the European Commission’s campaign to reach 10m tonnes of recycled plastic in new products on the EU market by 2025. The results from PCEP’s
2021 Polyolefin Material Flow Study showed it has already reached its pledge to increase the amount of recycled post-consumer polyolefin used in European
Partnership starts in
Above: Bales of post-consumer PP and HDPE containers at Kunststoff Recycling Grünstadt
products to 3m tonnes. As a result, the industry has now increased its target to 4m tonnes a year by 2025 – double the amount used in 2016. Ton van der Giessen, interim Chair of PCEP Steering Board, said: “PCEP is all about action, not just
words. Having achieved our target faster, by revising our pledge and our voluntary commitments we are demonstrating that PCEP is determined to be a major driving force in our indus- try’s transformation to circularity.” �
https://pcep.eu
Erema acquires stake in start-up
Erema Group has acquired 19.8% of Plasticpreneur, an Austrian start-up which manufactures portable recycling machines for plastic waste. These small scale plants and accom- panying tooling convert waste plastics to products in areas with minimal infrastructure or processing skills.
In the two years since the company was founded, Plasticpreneur has sold 330 machines to customers in over 70 countries and made over 750 application-specif- ic moulds, many of them custom-built to comply with individual customer specifi-
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Left: Plasticpreneur makes portable plastics recycling equipment
cations. The company’s overriding ethos is based on the concept that when recycling becomes a source of income for the operators they become entrepreneurs, hence the name. Plasticpreneur machines can process HDPE, PP, PS,
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LDPE, PLA, ABS and TPU separately and its product range includes a shred- der, an injection moulding unit, an extruder unit and air filters. “For our machines to be used in regions with little infrastructure, they must be easy to operate without prior knowledge. The fact that we also develop end-product solutions needed locally makes our range of services particularly attractive here,” said CEO and co-founder Sören Lex. �
www.erema.com �
https://plasticpreneur.com
PE supply Manupackaging, a stretch films manufacturer headquartered in Italy, has announced a strategic supply partnership with Saica Natur Cycle Plus to classify and recycle post-consumer LDPE/ LLDPE and reintroduce it in the production cycle as a raw material. The PCR material is being used by Manupackaging to produce Manunature RR, a 100% recyclable high-performance PE stretch film.
Depending on the intended use, the film contains up to 60% of PCR material and is part of a portfolio which includes sustainable load security and transport packaging films such as Manunature BB, with 50% renewable feedstock-based LLDPE, and Manunature BD, a bio- degradable stretch film. Pierfranco Di Gioia,
CEO of M Stretch, holding company of the Manu- packaging Group, said: “Increasing demand for sustainable packaging solutions, especially from industries like food and beverage, is encouraging us to further develop eco stretch films and to extract more value from the total product cycle of our raw materials. On this particu- lar area of focus, we are working closely with key partners throughout the relevant supply chain.” �
www.manupackaging.com �
www.saica.com
www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com
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