How to find your Designed for Recycling packaging
Find your Designed For Recycling packaging and transition with ease
Flexible packaging per se does quite a good job on being resource-saving compared to other, heavier packaging types1.
However, being flexible and lightweight is not enough in future. As of 2030 packaging needs to be recyclable or it will be banned. Therefore it is time to prepare your switch to Design for Recycling packaging. Now.
Prepare your packaging portfolio for the PPWR already today!
“2030 is far away!”
Yes, but not if you need to find a new packaging that is ticking all the boxes:
- Product protection
- Efficiency on your packaging line
- Design for Recycling
- Recycled content
Depending on your product, this process can take years. Therefore, starting early is the only choice.
What will be the Design for Recycling guidelines in 2030?
Nobody can say for sure yet. However, future EU Design for Recycling standards or the upcoming new CEN standard will be based on today’s D4R guidelines. Therefore, anyone who follows the latest guidelines today and implements them in the design of their packaging is already well prepared. Once all the details of the design for recycling and the assessment of grades A, B, C and D in accordance with the PPWR have been finalised, the necessary adjustments are likely to be minimal. Read more about the expected impact of the PPWR.
Design for Recycling is not all. What about Recycled Content?
Right, your future packaging will need to contain recycled content. This is the only way we will achieve a true circular economy. In non-contact sensitive products we are already there with products such as our EcoString bag with up to 80% PCR content. For food and other sensitive products, the answer is yet in the making. In between building capacities for chemical recycling and creating special recycling loops in mechanical recycling, there is still a lot to be done. The good news? We are many, doing a lot.
How to find the Designed for Recycling packaging for your product?
Design for Recycling can be rather tricky, especially when your product and / or machine setup is demanding in terms of required barriers or efficiency targets for example. Whenever we work on Design for Recycling with our customers, we have a look at the complete picture.
Luckily, the creation of a circular economy for flexible packaging is no new topic and much work has been done already in the flexible packaging sector, thanks to initiatives such as CEFLEX. Over the last few years, our adapa R&D teams have developed a wide portfolio of Designed for Recycling packaging solutions based on the various guidelines.
Have a look if your application is among them!
PP, PE or paper – adapa’s wide portfolio of D4R packaging solutions
Flowpacks
Standup Pouches
Thermoforming
Twist wraps
Shrink packaging
Drawstring bags
Your application is not here? Check out our product portfolio and let’s get in contact to find your Designed for Recycling packaging!
They have already switched to D4R:
Would you like to check that box on your todo list, too?
Together we can tackle the hurdle presented by the PPWR. Contact us today to make sure you are as well-prepared as possible!
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