It’s been three weeks since we published #DIN SPEC 91446 for public review – 5 weeks left to go. When we started cirplus in 2018, we found a market in disarray: brand owners, bent on responding to increasing consumer pressure, were demanding more and more recycled #plastics for their products in #packaging, #automotive and the #construction industry. The massive wave of #recyclates demand has been building up ever since. Yet, procuring consistent qualities and quantities of recyclates in fragmented markets was hard – with no clear standards along the value chain to establish commodity categories for recyclates, how could that market truly scale? One part of the solution has been to launch cirplus as digital #procurement platform for the industry, the other has been to build this new #standard. This is why I am incredibly excited to see the result of DIN SPEC 91446, as new standard for the classification of recycled plastics based on Data Quality Levels for use and digital trading. Working on standards can be a dry affair, but not if you understand what better #commodification for recycled plastics through standards ultimately means: making plastic waste history! Because by unlocking the market for recycled plastics, we give waste a higher value and therefore more incentives for it to be recycled rather than burnt or dumped in our beautiful oceans. I want to thank all 16 partners of the consortium for their tireless work over the past 9 months and look forward to the comments of all stakeholders in the debate on how we can achieve true #circularity of plastics. Download and comment DIN SPEC 91446 (published in English) here: https://lnkd.in/ekmzkCz To the press release of DIN: https://lnkd.in/ez-249G See the new recyclates label according to DIN SPEC 91446 below, courtesy of DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. #sustainability #procurement #standardization #b2b #marketplace
Very promising Christian Schiller and good to see that cirplus is moving the industry forward with introducing widely accepted quality standards for recycled plastic! Good news also for our closed loop recycling system at Circleback 🤩
Congratulations to you and your partners, Christian Schiller! This is a huge milestone. And it will be a very valuable tool for our work. Let's keep on pushing the boulder up the hill together. 😉
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Congrats, this is a good step forward! 😀
Fantastic milestone and a testament to your abilities! Congrats Christian Schiller and cirplus!
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2yCongratulations for this achievement!