On November 26, 2024, Toronto-based CSA Group announced the release of a new Canadian national standard, CSA R117:24, designed to improve consistency in the definition, measurement and reporting of plastic recycling. The standard, developed with the support of the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), makes the circularity of plastics clearer by establishing a standardized framework and consistent definitions for various recycling methods, tracking and measurement.

SGS-CSTC Standards Technical Services Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “SGS”) issued the first SGS EN15343 recycled plastic certification certificate to Yantai Baima Packaging Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Baima Packaging”).

According to Thailand's The Nation, the Department of Foreign Trade of the Thai Ministry of Commerce announced on Tuesday that in order to prevent plastic waste from causing harm to the environment and public health, Thailand will ban the import of waste plastics from January 1, 2025.

Renault's Re-FACTORY in Flins, France, is Europe's first circular economy factory dedicated to mobility. It is an innovative industrial and commercial circular economy ecosystem established by Renault Group in Flins, with the goal of achieving a negative CO2 balance by 2030.

A large proportion of PET recycling comes from the recycling of PET bottles. The production efficiency and product quality of the recycling process are constantly affected by the non-recyclable design elements of the front-end PET bottles, mainly from the material selection and design form of the bottle resin, color, barrier layer/coating/additives, cap/pump head, label/ink/adhesive and accessories.

Carbon Footprint is an indicator used to measure the amount of carbon dioxide emissions caused directly or indirectly by an individual, organization, product or country within a certain period of time.

Berry Global, an American plastic packaging manufacturer, recently announced that its European flexible packaging division has made significant progress in the use of post-consumer recycled polyethylene (rPE), with a year-on-year increase of up to 36%.

GB/T 40006 "Recycled Plastics" series of standards clearly defines the technical requirements for various recycled plastic materials. The general requirements for the corresponding types of recycled plastics all mention that "the particle size should be uniform and there should be no obvious color difference."