{"id":69556,"date":"2022-10-04T09:55:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T07:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=69556"},"modified":"2022-10-04T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:08:23","slug":"sidel-becomes-a-member-of-r-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/sidel-wird-mitglied-von-r-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidel becomes a member of R-Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a member of the R-Cycle community, Sidel wants to promote the circular economy and traceability of plastic packaging. R-Cycle is an open traceability standard for sustainable plastic packaging. A digital product passport is created along the value chain, which enables better separation of packaging in sorting plants.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Sidel<\/a> is now a member of the R-Cycle community, which is designing digital \u201eproduct passports\u201c in order to accelerate the recycling of plastic packaging around the world<\/strong>. On the basis of an open traceability standard, R-Cycle Collect information on the recycling-relevant properties of plastic packaging<\/strong>. This data, which is stored in a database, can then be retrieved and recorded by every production machine along the value chain, from packaging manufacturers and processors to the recycling industry. This enables waste sorting systems can identify fully recyclable packaging<\/strong>, and helped to obtain high-purity, recycling-friendly materials for processing into a wide range of high-quality plastic products.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201eSidel recently became a member of the R-Cycle initiative because we want to continue our strong commitment to realising the circular economy. A global standard that links partners from around the world and from all stages of the plastic packaging lifecycle to record and retrieve all relevant packaging properties will have a very positive impact on product sustainability. The standard will improve manufacturing processes and the quality of recyclates and enable the realisation of a true circular economy.\u201c<\/p>

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Currently, recyclable plastic packaging cannot be separated from waste streams precisely enough to enable high-quality recycling, which is why current recycling rates are very low - only 9 per cent of plastic waste is actually recycled.
There are two main obstacles to successful plastics recycling. On the one hand more fully recyclable packaging produced<\/strong> become. In this area, the company is helping customers by promoting the use of PET, currently the most recycled plastic material available. The other obstacle is the Increasing complexity of the recycling process<\/strong>; R-Cycle concentrates on this factor.<\/p>

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\u201eIt's great to see how our community is continuously growing and how forward-looking partners from the packaging industry are combining their high innovation capacities to serve R-Cycle. Sidel is contributing a great deal of driving force and a strong commitment to a functioning circular economy that will help us move forward together.\u201c<\/p>

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R-Cycle will support manufacturers worldwide by improving process efficiency and product quality. Having access to precise information about the raw material will help to speed up production and the recording of product properties will provide added value for customers. The digital product passport will be helpful to achieve compliance, to provide information<\/strong>, which are designed to meet the current and future requirements of customers and legislators, e.g. the calculation of CO2<\/sub>-footprint, and in favour of extended producer responsibility (EPR), a policy approach that assigns responsibility for the processing and disposal of post-consumer products to manufacturers.<\/p>

R-Cycle also provides a working solution for the European Union's Circular Economy Action Plan, which aims to ensure the traceability of plastic packaging to improve its recyclability, using the tracking and management of information on resources and the digitalisation of product data.<\/p>