R-Cycle Initiative Grows Along the Entire Value Chain

The third strategic R-Cycle consortium meeting took place – due to Corona, of course, digitally as a video conference. The results of all operational activities as well as the strategic development of the initiative were presented and discussed by the respective project leaders and managing directors of the consortium members.

The focus of the meeting was on the recent expansion of the consortium in further sub-areas of the value chain of plastic packaging. Three new key partners have joined R-Cycle in the past three months.

As Kampf Schneid- und Wickeltechnik GmbH & Co. KG, with its highly specialized equipment for processing plastic film webs, is the link to packaging production, Steinert GmbH and the Erema Group are well-known global players in the directly interrelated fields of waste sorting and recyclate production.

Dr. Benedikt Brenken, Director of the R-Cycle Initiative, explains: “In the meantime, we have been able to win renowned partners in almost every value-added step along the packaging cycle. This means we now have a holistic basis for testing our data standard. Our third meeting clearly showed that a functioning circular economy is a high priority for all stakeholders around plastic packaging and that R-Cycle has enormous potential as a solution.”

The broad cross-industry participation creates a complete data set that makes the recycling-relevant properties of a packaging transparent for waste sorting. As a result, waste streams can be sorted more precisely, producing higher-quality recyclates.

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MULTIVAC – the World’s Leading Manufacturer of Integrated Packaging Solutions – Becomes an R-Cycle Partner.

MULTIVAC joins the cross-company initiative R-Cycle. The aim is to jointly drive forward the circular economy for plastic packaging on the basis of an open and globally applicable tracing standard. R-Cycle records all recycling-relevant information from the production process in the form of a digital product passport and makes it available for recycling. To retrieve the stored information, a machine-readable mark – for example, a QR or digital watermark code – is applied to the packaging. In this way, waste sorting systems can use market proven detection technologies to identify fully recyclable packaging and form pure fractions within the recycling process. Precise sorting and transparency regarding the exact composition (types of plastic, printing inks, adhesives, additives, etc.) are key to obtaining high-quality recyclate for high-value recycling.

Stefan Scheibel, Vice President Corporate Training & Innovation Center of the MULTIVAC Group, explains: “In our Innovation Center we are always analyzing the latest trends and advising our customers on the market requirements of tomorrow. Digitization along the value chain has enormous potential in this respect for bringing sustainable packaging into a high-quality recycling process. We think of sustainability holistically. Packaging must effectively protect goods – especially food – in order to conserve resources; at the same time, the packaging itself must be designed sustainably and effective recycling processes must be ensured. In this context, exchange with partners from all involved industrial sectors is essential.”

Dr. Benedikt Brenken, Director of the R-Cycle Initiative, adds: “With MULTIVAC, we are gaining another important partner and global player in the value cycle. Not only the material of a package, but also its contents represent important recycling-relevant information, which we capture with R-Cycle. We look forward to working together and generating new momentum in the development and implementation of the R-Cycle standard.”

“Sustainability is an integral part of our corporate strategy,” explains Guido Spix, Group President of MULTIVAC. “We are pleased that by joining the R-Cycle initiative we can support shape an industry standard and thus make a positive contribution to promoting the circular economy for plastic packaging. The exchange with upstream and downstream processes in the value chain helps us to understand the individual steps even better and to co-develop sustainable solutions.”

In addition to manufacturing packaging machines, MULTIVAC also supplies solutions for processing and cutting, marking and labeling, and also quality inspection and handling of products. The portfolio is supplemented by digital products, such as MULTIVAC Smart Services, which help to increase machine availability and thus efficiency. A digital product passport of plastic packaging can also provide valuable information for this, in order to make the packaging process more efficient, faster and therefore more sustainable.

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R-Cycle Complements Cooperation Project for a Pioneering Recycling Concept

R-Cycle Partner Reifenhäuser announced, together with the key industry players Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP), a business unit of Dow (NYSE: DOW), HP Indigo, Cadel Deinking and Karlville, the successful delivery of the first-of-its-kind pouch-to-pouch mechanical recycling concept within a cooperation project.

The approach uses a multi-stage process to contribute to a circular economy for digitally printed pouches. Starting with a polyethylene (PE)-based barrier food pouch designed for recyclability, the project team have used mechanical recycling and deinking to create a high-quality dishwasher MDO-PE pouch containing 30 percent recycled contents and being itself suitable for recycling.

In a next step, the team is working on the digital product passport R-Cycle to allow for recycling-relevant packaging properties to be recorded and to make the pouch identifiable for high-quality recycling within post-consumer waste management.

Read the full report here: https://corporate.dow.com/en-us/news/press-releases/team-work-for-pouch-to-pouch-recycling-concept

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