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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...

Start for the R-Cycle Community R-Cycle starts into a new phase as an open community. The first official general assembly was held on May 3, 2022 at R-Cycle member Multivac’s corporate site in Wolfertschwenden, Germany. R-Cycle was founded in 2020 as an initiative of various technology...

IN.Pack Machinery Joins R-Cycle – Setting New Standards for Plastic Recycling Through Digital Product Passports IN.Pack Machinerey, a leading producer of flexible Packaging machinery with a sustainability proposition, joins the R-Cycle community to help the Packaging industry in its journey towards a circular economy. R-Cycle has...

Innovation and Traceability for Plastic Recycling Through Digital Product Passports Syncro Group joins R-Cycle Syncro Group, a leading producer of auxiliaries with a sustainability proposition, joins the R-Cycle community to help Circular Economy growing into the Packaging Industry. The concept of R-Cycle boosts technologies, allowing the recording of...