GPRC

GLOBAL PLASTIC RECYCLING COUNCIL

GPRC is a scheme owner that sets guideline to, certify plastic recyclable products. The primary objective of the council is to build the utilization of reused plastic. Apart from doing this GPRC is also increasing awareness of recycling plastic.

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WHY IS THERE A NEED FOR GPRC

All plastics are non-biodegradable and thus builds-up in the environment, where it can cause harm. For example, approximately 8 million tons of waste plastic enter the Earth's oceans every year, causing damage to the aquatic ecosystem and forming large soil and water body garbage patches.

Pre-consumer recycled plastics are materials that were rejected before they were ready for consumer usage. Manufacturing discards are being reintroduced into the manufacturing process through pre-consumer.

Plastic that was used to make an item and then discarded, gathered, cleaned, and recycled is known as post-consumer. Post-consumer plastic products close the loop by diverting spent plastic away from landfills and toward recycling facilities.

Key Points

Certification on Plastic Recycled Products

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Plastic Recycles Awareness, Economic Impact

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Chain of Custody

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Responsible Production

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Stakeholder engagement

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Verifying Recycled Material

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OBJECTIVES

Assuring the reduction the production of virgin Plastic

Assuring the reduction of Plastic pollution in soil & water bodies.

Guarantee of Tracing Recycled Plastic materials.

Ensuring Recycled Plastic use in whole supply chain from collectors to end user.

Give brands and consumers a medium to help them make well informed decisions based on CoC.

Global plastic recycling history

How plastic recycling began

Plastic recycling has been promoted since the early 1970s, but it did not have a substantial influence on plastic waste until the late 1980s due to severe economic and technical hurdles. The Council for Solid Waste Solutions was founded in 1988 by the United States Society of Plastics Industry as a trade organization to promote the idea of plastic recycling to the general public. The organization persuaded American communities to start or expand plastic garbage collection systems, as well as lobbying states to require recycling symbols on plastic containers and products. In 1988, they introduced resin identification codes, which established a consistent system for identifying diverse polymer kinds at materials recovery plants, where plastic sorting was still mostly done by hand.

Global Plastic Recycling Trade

Increasing globalization in the 1990s permitted rich economies to export plastic garbage to developing and middle-income countries, where it could be processed and recycled more cheaply. This was part of a burgeoning worldwide garbage trade, with yearly plastic waste trade quickly increasing from 1993 onwards.

Problems

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Effects on
Environment

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Effects on
Animals

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Effects on
Human Beings

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Effects on Atmosphere

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Excess new Plastic Production