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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...

BOBST Aims to Help Close the Plastic Loop With R-Cycle BOBST, one of the world’s leading suppliers to the packaging industry, tests the R-Cycle data standard and is launching a pilot project to automatically record recycling-relevant information during the processing of plastic films. The aim of...

R-Cycle Complements Cooperation Project for a Pioneering Recycling Concept R-Cycle Partner Reifenhäuser announced, together with the key industry players Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP), a business unit of Dow (NYSE: DOW), HP Indigo, Cadel Deinking and Karlville, the successful delivery of the first-of-its-kind pouch-to-pouch...

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...