Become part of the circular economy for plastics

How to conserve resources and save CO2!

Do you market plastic packaging based on the polymers PP, PO, LDPE, HDPE, PET or PS or do you already use such recyclates in your products?

Then you can participate, become active now!

Become part of the circular economy for plastics

How to conserve resources and save CO2!

Raw materials are becoming scarcer, people are consuming more and more resources and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise dramatically. We must act – to protect the earth and future generations.

Keeping plastics in the cycle makes a significant contribution to climate protection. It helps to save raw materials and significantly reduce CO2 emissions.

Do you market plastic packaging based on the polymers PP, PO, LDPE, HDPE, PET or PS or do you already use such recyclates in your products?

Then you can participate, become active now!

Our mission

We strengthen the use of recyclates throughout the value chain and provide participating companies with a tool to meet their climate protection obligations.

To this end, we bring together stakeholders ranging from brand owners with recyclable packaging to manufacturers of durable goods with a high recycled content – with the aim of creating a holistic material flow.

A complete record of all process levels ensures the “best possible” contribution of each company involved and enables the expansion of the recyclate market!

We support the goals of the UN

Objective

CRC GmbH’s objective is to promote the circularity of plastic packaging in the sense of UN SDG No. 17 – “Partnership to Accomplish the Goals” – through cooperation among partners along the entire value chain and to contribute significantly to decarbonization.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions

The increased amount of recycled material in the loop replaces an equivalent amount of fossil raw materials and thus contributes to a significant CO2 reduction.

Replacing 1kg of fossil virgin material with 1kg of recycled material saves approx.:
1.5 – 2.5 kg CO2! The use of recycled material is climate protection!

Stabilization of the recyclate sales market

The sale of the credit offers additional sales potential thanks to the reimbursement of proportionally calculated recyclate input quantities, which makes the use of recyclate more profitable. Investment security is increased.
The market for recycled material stabilizes.
The price of recycled material is decoupled from the price of virgin material.

Increasing the quantities of recycled material used

Participation in the certificate system is only possible if the plastic packaging of a brand owner is demonstrably recycled to a high quality, i.e. used as a substitute for virgin material in typical material applications. This requirement leads to a shortage of certificates, which can only be remedied by increasing the quantity of high-quality (in the sense of virgin material-replacing) recyclates. This creates an incentive to redesign previously non-recyclable packaging in the direction of significantly improved recyclability. The resulting improvement in recyclate quality opens up additional market potential for their use.

Volume flow validation

credits are only traded for plastic volumes (polymers: PP, PO, PS, LDPE, HDPE, PET) that can be verifiably used in products in terms of quantity and polymer identity. Accredited auditors ensure an actual flow of volumes from buyers and sellers of certifiable plastic products

Increase the recyclable packaging volume.

Participation in the CRC certification system requires the use of recyclable products in accordance with internationally recognized standards. The certification is renewed annually. Legislative changes are taken into account so that continuous optimization in the Design for Recycling is guaranteed.

How it works

The principle is simple. A manufacturer (‘PCR recycler’) who uses more post-consumer recyclates (PCR) in high-quality applications than required by law receives certificates in the corresponding amount. These certificates can be acquired by manufacturers (brand manufacturers/distributors of packaging) who are not (yet) able to fulfil the legal requirements for the use of recyclates.

The prerequisite for the acquisition of certificates or the crediting of the packaging to be placed on the market is that it can be recycled to a high standard and reused as a substitute for virgin material in high-quality applications.
The certificate purchaser can only acquire certificates for plastic quantities (PP, PO, PS, LDPE, HDPE, PET) that are polymer-identical with the products for which they are to be used!

Übersicht des Gesamtprinzips

The certified PCR quantities may no longer be used by the seller for offsetting against the statutory recycled content quotas. This avoids double counting or a mathematical conflict with the legal requirements.
See example below:

Seamless auditing and verification in the cycle:

100% transparency is ensured by auditing the entire process without gaps. It is guaranteed that audited proof is available confirming that the certificate purchaser places packaging on the market that is reused as post-consumer recyclates after high-quality recycling. Furthermore, it is ensured that the certificates purchased are backed by corresponding quantities of high-quality post-consumer recycled material (PCR), which are validated by publicly appointed and sworn experts. CRC as a system head and its entire processes are audited in the third stage.

Who can participate
in the credit system?

Credit purchaser:

Brand owners/marketers of plastic packaging that cannot physically use recyclate due to legal regulations or certain packaging properties have the opportunity to participate in the CRC credit system.  

Credit provider:

Those Converters can become credit providers who already use recyclates for high-value applications. By selling the credits, they can tap new revenue potential, making the overall use of recyclates more profitable and increasing the share.


The use for high-value applications is ensured by certified auditors. The material flow from post-consumer packaging via sorting, recyclers to converters and from there to high-quality applications is thus precisely verified via the volume flow verification of the Dual Systems and the respective auditors.  

Requirements and obligations for the purchase/sale

Use of the polymers PP, PS, PO, LDPE, HDPE, PET.
The purchaser (brand owner / distributor of packaging) must provide proof of the recyclability of his packaging. The proof can be provided by a testing institute which is recognized by the German Central Packaging Register or internationally.
A recyclable material content of >90% must be indicated for recyclability!
Purchased certificates may only be credited in the validated quantity to the product packaging placed on the market. Resale is not permitted.
1:1 premise. Only certificates for quantities of the same polymer type can be purchased or sold.
The recyclates must be from Eucertplast certified recyclers and are therefore clearly classified and traceable.
The certificate issuer has relinquished its claim to credit for the recycled content by selling it.

The advantages at a glance

By fulfilling the listed requirements, CRC certificate trading makes a significant contribution to resource conservation and decarbonization:

Resource conservation

Reduction of CO2

Increase in the amount of recycled material used

Communication benefits


The team behind CRC

We combine expertise in high-quality recycling and flexible plastics processing

Dr. Dirk Textor

MANAGING DIRECTOR

25+ years of experience in plastics recycling. Chairman of the plastics recycling section of bvse e.V. (German Association for Secondary Raw Materials and Recycling). Strong international and national network.

Ansgar Schonlau

Managing Director

Ansgar Schonlau is an international packaging expert with over 25 years of experience in the plastics industry. He has held various sales and management positions, always with the aim of developing sustainable and cost-effective products and processes. Since 2018, Ansgar Schonlau has been the owner of the highly innovative packaging manufacturer Maag.

Dr. Michael O.E. Scriba

Managing Director

Dr. Michael O.E. Scriba is considered a pioneer of the circular economy for packaging due to his pioneering role in establishing the Green Dot in Germany and the successful restructuring of a plastics recycling company, the mtm plastics group, into one of the largest polyolefin recyclers in Europe. As chairman and advisor to several important industry organizations and as a shareholder of a recycler, he actively shapes and advises the value chain in plastics recycling.

Contact

Do you place recyclable packaging of the polymer type: PP, LDPE, HDPE, PO, PS or PET on the market or do you manufacture products of the same polymer? Then write to us. We will be happy to check whether you are eligible to participate in our certification.

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