Ten weeks to the non-OECD export ban: where 500-800 kt will have to go
Mechanical recycling, chemical recycling or incineration. The three destinations for displaced material, and why the third is the most likely in the short term.
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Industry news
Editor selection. Only what moves the post-consumer recyclate market in 2025/26.
Where food-grade rPET comes from, and why the source sets the price
Two offers of food-grade rPET at the same price can carry very different risk. The difference is rarely the process and almost always the stream feeding it.
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Odour, colour drift and gels: reading a PCR complaint back to its cause
Three complaints account for most rejected recyclate deliveries. Each is usually blamed on the supplier and is more often a gap in the specification.
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Post-consumer or post-industrial: the distinction that decides whether it counts
A certificate can be genuine and the material genuinely reprocessed, and the offer still useless for a compliance file. Origin is the question that comes first.
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One week of PPWR: what changed for packaging buyers on 12 August
PFAS restrictions took effect immediately, recycled content targets did not. The full calendar to 2030 and four things to require from suppliers now.
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RecyClass passes 500 recyclability evaluations weeks before PPWR bites
Announced 21 July 2026. What a recyclability evaluation does and does not tell you, and how to use one in a supplier conversation without overstating it.
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Pellet loss regulation: the compliance calendar to 17 December 2026
Who needs a certificate, what the 1,500 tonne threshold means, and why the harmonised loss-estimation standards due in December matter more than they look.
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June assessments: weak demand across every recycled polymer
rPET flakes at EUR 1,331-1,341/t, pellets at 1,718-1,728, black rPP down 3.3% month on month. Full table and four conclusions for 2027 contracting.
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Council adopts ELV Regulation: 15% recycled plastic in new vehicles, 20% closed loop
Adopted 29 June 2026: 15% recycled plastic after six years, 25% after ten, with at least 20% from end-of-life vehicles. What it means for rPP and rHDPE supply.
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End-of-waste criteria for plastics: what the draft act would change
When does recyclate stop being waste? The draft EU criteria cover mechanical and physical recycling but not chemical. What changes commercially, and what does not.
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