The current EU legislations (e.g. SUP, PPWR and relative Implementing Acts) and their amendments are setting mandatory targets for the PET industry, which will require that, by 2030, all plastic materials must be recyclable and reusable.
This will turn the market and PET value chain from a linear to a circular process. In parallel, consumers show a preference for materials with low or neutral environment impact and, at the same time, green claims made by companies will have to be certified by third parties according to the 1616/2022 legislation and the relative Documents of Compliance.
Circularity across the EU markets can be achieved through the establishment of suitable collection and recycling schemes that can deliver the required recycled quality and quantity, while also maintaining current levels of consumer safety. This all needs to be supported by objective certification schemes assuring sustainability and securing consumer safety, together with a well harmonised EU system which will prevent and remove different approaches to circularity across Member States which may under optimise the process.
PETCORE EUROPE is committed to always supporting the circularity process. For this reason, it is keen to offer certification services to the PET value chain through its partners – such as RETRAY Certification, owned by Ecosense Foundation* https://ecosensefoundation.org/en/certification/.
RETRAY scheme certifies processes and products through the RETRAY Process and RETRAY Product certificates. Its task is to verify compliance with requirements that must be met in the PET sheet manufacturing, thermoforming and packaging processes. This includes: 1) Traceability: both in the introduction of recycled PET and in the management of PET waste generated for subsequent recycling, 2) Quantification of the recycled content according to the requirements of standard EN 15343 and 3) Recyclability: verifying the guidelines established by PETCORE EUROPE (for mono layer thermoforms), of which the Foundation is a member.
* Ecosense Foundation is the brand under which the Plastic Sense Foundation withholding Tax Identification No. G19624063 operates. It is registered with the Register of Foundations of the Ministry for Justice under no. 1871 and headquartered in Madrid, Spain – Avda. de España, Planta 2, Oficina 1, 28100 Alcobendas.
Detailed information can be found on the Ecosense Foundation site: https://ecosensefoundation.org/en/certification/.
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