Plastic waste goes through multiple stages before it can be transformed into high-quality recycled material used in new products. At every step, maintaining traceability is crucial to meet the highest safety and quality standards and ensure the verification of waste origin.
To support full material traceability and support stakeholders align with evolving EU legislation, RecyClass has developed a suite of certification schemes tailored to the plastic recycling value chain.
The visual below illustrates how these certification schemes interconnect and highlights the key legislative requirements each one addresses — ensuring a transparent and reliable recycling process from start to finish.
Sorter
Regulation (EU) No 2022/1616 introduces a mandatory requirement to certify the origin of plastic waste input to be used in food contact recycling.
RecyClass Sorting Process Certification is intended for sorting centres that would like to demonstrate origin and traceability requirements aligned with the requirements of article 6 of Regulation (EU) No 2022/1616 for plastic input.
Recycler
With the Recycling Process Certification, plastic recyclers can demonstrate the traceability, the quality of their processes and transparently communicate the origin of waste. The Audit Scheme requirements are aligned with those of standards EN 15343:2007 and ISO 22095:2020 for controlled blending models, which means it can be used as proof of audit for the Spanish Plastic Tax.
Compounder / Trader / Converter / Producer
The Recycled Plastics Traceability Certification assesses the physical traceability of recycled plastic material along the value chain. Through the controlled blending model, it offers a robust verification on the use of recycled plastics in products and allows for the reporting of a known percentage of recycled plastics in outputs. This scheme can also be used as adequate proof for the Spanish Plastic Tax.
