{"id":44371,"date":"2021-05-04T16:23:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T14:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=44371"},"modified":"2021-07-28T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T08:50:11","slug":"used-plastic-from-the-yellow-bag-hardly-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/altplastik-aus-dem-gelben-sack-kaum-genutzt\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste plastic from the Yellow Bag hardly used?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, used plastic from the Yellow Bag is hardly used in reality. Instead, according to the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, the import of cheap recyclate from Asia is increasing. The company Werner & Mertz is calling for financial incentives for the use of post-consumer recyclate (<\/strong>PCR) and seamless laws.
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The S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) newspaper reports that this is yet another scandal on the subject of plastic recycling: Instead of using more used plastic from the Yellow Bag, the import of cheap \u201erecyclate\u201c from Asia continues to increase - without being able to check whether it is actually recycled material. \u201eMuch of it could be fake<\/strong>\u201c, the SZ quotes Antonello Ciotti, Director of Equipolymers, one of the largest PET manufacturers in the EU. His conclusion: \u201eConsumers could become victims of greenwashing when shopping.\u201c<\/p>\n

Reinhard Schneider<\/strong>, owner of the Mainz-based detergent manufacturer Werner & Mertz, confirms this statement in the article: \u201eThe risk of consumers being misled is very high here. It's like money laundering, which Origin of the PET is not transparent<\/strong>. It can be disguised in the blink of an eye.\u201c<\/p>

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Incorrectly declared recyclate reduces recycling quotas to absurdity<\/h2>\n

But not only do false declarations pose a massive problem for consumers in their daily shopping, the cheap goods from Asia are also a major problem for the manufacturers of recycled PET in Europe - due to the massive price war. jeopardising all efforts to promote and increase the recycling rate in Europe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Advanced Mechanical Recycling from the Yellow Bag is possible\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Since 2012 Werner & Mertz has been committed to the Recyclate initiative<\/a> The company, together with co-operation partners along the entire value chain, is committed to high-quality mechanical recycling from the Yellow Bag source and has shown time and again that it is indeed technologically possible, equivalent packaging made from so-called post-consumer recyclate <\/strong>\u00a0produce: Since 2014, the PET bottles of the well-known Frosch brand have been made from 100 per cent PCR, 20 per cent of which comes from the Yellow Bag source.<\/p>