Petcore Europe, PlasticsEurope, Plastics Recyclers Europe, and VinylPlus have mutually agreed to join forces to form PolyREC, which will monitor, verify, and report their plastics recycling and uptake data in Europe.
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PolyREC created to report on Europe’s plastics circularity
This will be achieved through RecoTrace, a common data collection system. PolyREC aims to ensure traceability, transparency, and trust in recycled materials along the entire plastics value chain by utilising VinylPlus’ 20 years’ experience and expertise in becoming the industry standard for collecting credible and reliable recycling data via its data collection vehicle Recovinyl.
VinylPlus’ Managing Director Brigitte Dero said: “The European PVC industry, through VinylPlus, has learnt the importance of monitoring and progress reporting. We are therefore pleased to share this long-time experience and work collaboratively with all plastic industry sectors to raise traceability and transparency.”
Plastics Recyclers Europe President Ton Emans added: “Today’s announcement by the plastics value chain, covering recyclers, raw material producers, and converters, is a significant step towards a credible and systemic approach to genuinely improve plastic production, collection, and recycling. This mutual approach to data collection is indispensable to measure the industry’s advancement while using the same yardstick”.
Petcore Europe’s Managing Director Christian Crépet said: “Petcore Europe has been pioneering the monitoring of PET recycling in Europe since the 1990s. Its participation into a joint monitoring recycled plastics scheme for the EU is both timely and logical.”
PlasticsEurope MD Virginia Janssens concluded: “We are very pleased to join forces with key plastic value chain partners in setting up this unique cross-polymer monitoring system while benefiting from the longstanding and proven Recovinyl system. Capitalising on our solid experience in providing key figures of the European plastic industry, we see this as a key milestone in our journey towards circular plastics.”
Interested organisations are welcome to join this initiative.
