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Cirba Solutions
Cirba Solutions @cirba_solutions ·
What happens after a #battery reaches the end of its life? When batteries are recycled, we can recover critical materials and put them back to work. This helps reduce waste, strengthen domestic supply chains, and supports a circular economy. That’s #circularity in action. ♻️🔋V
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Styrenics Circular Solutions
Styrenics Circular Solutions @SCS4Circularity ·
Value chain further increases commitment to and cooperation on the #circularity of #polystyrene to meet upcoming requirements of EU packaging law (#PPWR): 🇮🇹 In Italy, converters Faerch, Gruppo Happy and Klöckner Pentaplas@t @kpGroup_ signed a Voluntary Agreement for Sustainabl-based Food Packaging under the umbrella of their national Federazione Gomma Plastica. The scope of the agreement encompasses XPS, #PS (GPPS, HIPS and OPS) and EPS food packaging. It is open to all companies producing styrenic packaging. It pursues environmental and technical harmonisation by sharing and disseminating already gained experience in design for recycling (DfR), promoting the adoption of DfR criteria and recycled content specifications, as well as traceability through certifications accredited with the Italian body @ACCREDIA, and with targeted awareness-raising communication. Particularly, its signatories commit to using a minimum of 10% safe and accredited recycled content in styrenic food packaging, as the creation of a market for recycled plastic is a fundamental prerequisite for a sustainable circular system. This minimum may be increased while each signatory may independently pursue higher targets. The agreement says that it fits perfectly within the framework of ongoing activities, e.g. the establishment of a coordination committee for the recycling of PS packaging within producer responsibility consortium @Corepla_Riciclo. 🇩🇪In Germany, dairy companies @Danone and Theo Müller Group joined Forum Rezyklat to promote PS recycling in the new initiative “Keeping PS alive – Realising PS Circularity.” Currently, 16 companies from all stages of the PS value chain participate in this initiative. These also include ALDI Nord and ALDI SÜD, SCS consortium members Greiner Packaging and Vogt Plastic, as well as BellandVision, Eko-Punkt, InterZero and PreZero, among others. The forum is hosted by @GS1 Germany. Materials that can be effectively recycled and allow for the safe use of recyclates even in food packaging should be promoted. The announcement highlights that PS is such a material, also as 98% of it collected via the yellow bin has been food packaging. The initiative focuses on optimising the collection and sorting of PS pots, enabling the use of mechanically recycled PS (mrPS), and increasing the demand for it, with the goal of establishing a high-quality, (mechanical) recycling at scale loop for PS in the EU by 2030. 🇪🇸Meanwhile, the Spanish ACPS - Alianza por la circularidad del poliestireno has launched its communication channel. Ever more national and individual initiatives have been improving the circularity of all types of PS packaging, achieving the use of 10-30% safe mrPS in food packaging on the market. Some of that is known to be provided by SCS members such as @Styrolution. Public data points to growing available PS feedstock, sorting and recycling capacity. Sources: - Original Italian announcefederazionegommaplastica.it/ambiente-e-sic…Vm9KK5 - Original German announceforum-rezyklat.de/news/pressemit…pUKeEG - Examples of national and individual PS circularity initiatives across Europe (and beyx.com/SCS4Circularit…gLcxMN - Areas of growth in circular PS – available feedsx.com/SCS4Circularit…4fERPe - Areas of growth in circular PS – sorting capax.com/SCS4Circularit…LvmTy6 - Areas of growth in circular PS – recycling capax.com/SCS4Circularit…4mJxOL
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