Sidel joins R-Cycle circular economy initiative

Using an open tracing standard, R-Cycle allows gathering of information about the recycling-related properties of plastic packaging. These details, stored on a common data platform, can then be automatically accessed, and recorded by any production machinery along the value chain, from packaging manufacturers and converters to the recycling industry. This ultimately enables waste-sorting lines to identify recyclable packaging and so help create recycling-friendly and pure materials for reprocessing into a wide range of high-grade plastic products.

‘Sidel recently joined R-Cycle because we want to continue playing a key role in bringing the circular economy to life,’ commented Francesca Bellucci, Sidel’s sustainability portfolio director, Product Innovation and Marketing. ‘Having a global standard that connects partners from around the world across the plastic packaging lifecycle to record and retrieve all relevant packaging properties will hugely benefit product sustainability. It will improve manufacturing processes as well as the quality of recyclates, resulting in the implementation of a genuinely circular economy.’

Dr Benedikt Brenken, director of R-Cycle, added: ‘It is great to see how our community is constantly growing with forward-looking partners from the packaging industry who are uniting their high innovative strength under the R-Cycle flag. Sidel is contributing important impetus here and its clear commitment to a functioning circular economy, which will move us forward together.’

R-Cycle was developed by a number of technology companies and organizations from across the lifecycle chain of plastic packaging, and Sidel will contribute to further development, as a leading provider of solutions for packaging of beverages, food, home and personal care products.

‘By connecting all value-added partners along the cycle, R-Cycle is the basis for obtaining high-quality recyclates to establish a working circular economy,’ concluded Bellucci.