In this edition of the Spotlight, CIRCPACK outlines its operational assessment and certification services and explains its ReCoRe platform for waste legislation.
Navigating the world of packaging recycling is more challenging than ever. With upcoming recycling technologies, changing EPR requirements, evolving legislation, and the need for third-party certification to prove recyclability, companies are left trying to manage a vast and complex web.
This is the landscape where CIRCPACK shines - turning complexity into simplicity.
CIRCPACK is your global compass for packaging recycling, offering brand owners and packaging companies the insight, tools, and certification they need to continue placing their packaging on the market.
We support you in two primary ways:
- Recyclability assessment of your packaging: our operational assessment and certification services provide thorough verification that your packaging is recyclable: ready for collection, sorting, and reprocessing into a new application. As a trusted partner, we are one of the few companies globally that certifies packaging materials across a wide range of formats - whether it’s plastic through RecyClass or paper, glass, and metals via CERTIFY.
- Portal on recycling, EPR, legislation in over 70 countries worldwide: our ReCoRe platform is more than just a tool - it’s a solution for navigating the complex world of waste legislation. Whether it’s the upcoming PPWR, evolving EPR requirements, or labelling norms, ReCoRe keeps you up-to-date and ensures compliance.
Here’s how CIRCPACK helps you:
● Holistic global service offering: Our positioning allows us to take into account real-world operational insights, lab perspectives, and scientific evidence. This is combined with expert knowledge on country-specific infrastructure and (upcoming) regulations: ensuring that your packaging will be market compliant.
● Material agnostic: We are completely neutral when it comes to packaging materials. It is our goal to ensure that packaging is recyclable across borders, regardless of material type.
● Operational and laboratory testing: CIRCPACK doesn’t just test your packaging in a lab environment - we access actual operational sorting and reprocessing facilities, giving us insights into how your packaging will behave in real-life scenarios. We can highlight design issues at an early stage, which will reduce your cost and issues later.
Unique access to operational recycling facilities
As an independent subsidiary of the Veolia Group, CIRCPACK benefits from unrivalled access to real recycling facilities, providing a blend of theoretical expertise and hands-on operational insights. We are the only player in the market that can offer this type of deep integration with recycling operations around the globe.
By leveraging our access to these facilities, we offer a tailored, data-driven approach to waste management that includes testing, certification, and compliance advice. Our ReCoRe platform is the key to simplifying packaging compliance in an increasingly regulated world.
ReCoRe: simplifying compliance, enhancing sustainability
ReCoRe offers unmatched global coverage, delivering detailed recycling and compliance information for over 70 countries. Backed by CIRCPACK’s exclusive access to Veolia’s extensive international recycling infrastructure, ReCoRe integrates real-world operational data into its platform, making it the most reliable tool in the market.
Its maturity rankings combine recycling rates with local sorting and collection capabilities, helping you assess the recyclability of your packaging across different regions.
The ReCoRe-platform contains:
● Validated recycling data
● EPR systems, EPR-fees and EPR-calculation
● Recyclability Maturity Ranking per country and packaging format
● Dynamic maps and reports
● Comparison tools
● Always up to date!
With our notification centre you will stay ahead of the game with updates on new packaging regulations, legislation changes, and EPR fees every two weeks.
Whether you’re seeking to certify your packaging’s recyclability or need to stay on top of the rapidly evolving legislation landscape, CIRCPACK is the partner that can guide you through every step of the process. Let us take the complexity out of recycling!
This content was sponsored by CIRCPACK.
