The current EU legislation and their amendments are setting mandatory targets for the PET industry, which will request that all plastic materials must be recyclable and reusable by 2030.
This will turn the market, and the PET value chain, from a linear process into a circular one. Meanwhile, consumers are demonstrating an interest in materials with low or neutral environmental impact and, at the same time, upcoming EU legislation will require that green claims made by companies are certified by third parties.
This can only happen by setting up suitable collection and recycling schemes in EU markets, able to deliver the required recycled quality and quantity, while also maintaining the current safety level for consumers. All of this will need to be supported by objective certification schemes assuring sustainability and securing consumer safety.
PETCORE EUROPE is committed to always supporting the circularity process and is keen to offer certification services to PET value chain members in addition to our current activities. These product certifications are offered through the RETRAY Certification owned by Ecosense Foundation* https://ecosensefoundation.org/en/certification/.
RETRAY scheme certifies processes and products through the RETRAY Process and the RETRAY Product certificates. Its task is to verify compliance with the requirements that must be met in the PET sheet manufacturing, thermoforming and packaging processes in terms of 1) Traceability: both in the introduction of recycled PET and in the management of the PET waste generated for subsequent recycling, 2) Quantification of the recycled content according to the requirements of standard EN 15343 and 3) Recyclability: verifying the guidelines established by PETCORE EUROPE (for mono layer thermoforms), of which the Foundation is a member. For multilayer thermoforms, until PETCORE EUROPE finalised the relative design guidelines RETRAY Scheme may use those developed by Ecosense Foundation.
Detailed information can be found in the Ecosense Foundation site: https://ecosensefoundation.org/en/certification/.
Contacts: PETCORE Management: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Argiris Dabanlis: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
* Ecosense Foundation is the brand under which operates the Plastic Sense Foundation with holding Tax Identification No. G19624063 and registered with the Register of Foundations of the Ministry for Justice under no. 1871 and has its headquarters in Madrid, Spain – Avda. de España, Planta 2, Oficina 1, 28100 Alcobendas.
