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R-Cycle in Practice: First Applications Presented to the Market The fourth strategic R-Cycle consortium meeting focused on practical applications. On April 28, project managers and managing directors of the consortium members met – digitally via video conference due to Corona – and presented their operational...

Aloxe Invests 50 Million Euros to Become the Independent European Leader in Recycled Pet. At this K Trade Fair 2022, Aloxe announces €50 million investments in Pet recycling in the 3 countries where it is already established (France, Poland, Italy). With 120 000 tons of...

Start of Semi-industrial Trials for Intelligent Sorting of Packaging Waste AIM, the European Brands Association, and the Alliance to End Plastic Waste announced their partnership to drive the next stage of development for intelligent waste sorting under the Digital Watermarks Initiative HolyGrail 2.0. They will...

R-Cycle Nominated for the German Innovation Award for Climate and Environment 2022 The cross-industry initiative for high-quality plastics recycling “R-Cycle” has been nominated for the German Innovation Award for Climate and Environment (IKU) 2022 of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWi)....

GS1 Launches Project to Develop Guideline Based on R-Cycle Under the auspices of GS1 Germany, the project PDS4CircularPlastics (Processes and data sharing approach for enabling circular plastics value networks) has been launched. The goal is to develop a GS1 guideline that describes the recycling-relevant process...

R-Cycle Initiative Becomes Open Community The R-Cycle Initiative, founded in 2020 by various technology companies and organizations across the plastic packaging lifecycle, is transitioning into an open community. This is the next important step for R-Cycle to establish its already functional digital traceability standard for...