New plastic recycling standard to be implemented across Europe
A new certification and audit scheme for recycling post-consumer plastics will be officially launched Europe-wide in August.
EuCertPlast was devised and launched by converters, recyclers and collectors of plastic in order to certify and audit post-consumer plastics recycling and aims to standardise transparency, waste traceability, and environmentally friendly best practices within the plastics recycling industry across Europe.
- EuCertPlast has attained the status of ‘standard’ and will implement existing European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) standard 15343 on post-consumer plastics recycling.
- Companies who meet the standards, that monitor the entire recycling process from beginning to end, verify that companies have the correct permits and ensure they are following the proper procedures, will be rewarded with a European Certificate.
- The European Plastics Recycling industry comprises 1,500 companies, recycling more than 4.5 million tonnes of plastic waste, according to EuCertPlast.
- Companies who meet the standards, that monitor the entire recycling process from beginning to end, verify that companies have the correct permits and ensure they are following the proper procedures, will be rewarded with a European Certificate.