NL: Quality requirements PET trays + mixed Polyolefin waste

The Netherlands Institute for Sustainable Packaging (KIDV) has published two new specifications with quality requirements for plastic packaging waste: one for PET trays, and one for Mixed Polyolefin (MPO). They also announced that an existing DKR specification can be used for polystyrene (PS). Technological developments make it possible to sort and recycle new plastic mono streams from the residual packaging waste. Up until now, municipalities and industrial waste sorters do not separate these new streams, because there were no quality requirements available; municipalities are then not compensated by the Dutch Packaging Waste Fund for sorting these streams (News Item KIDV, 6 June 2016).
Click here for the news item (in Dutch).
Click here for the product specifications for PET trays (196 kB).
Click here for the product specifications for Mixed Polyolefin (196 kB).
Click here for more information about the NVC Study Meeting PET recycling in Ghana (7 September 2016). For NVC members there are no costs involved.
Click here for more information about the NVC Inspiration meeting on the effectiveness of the Dutch policy on packaging and the environment (7 September 2016).
With NVC MERGE (Members-only Environmental Regulations Guide) you can stay up-to-date with the environmental requirements for your packaging. MERGE is exclusively for NVC members and there are no costs involved.

If you have any questions about this subject, please contact us: info@nvc.nl, +31-(0)182-512411. This item is also included in our monthly overview, the NVC Members-only Update.