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EPR is used in electrical cable insulation, and in many flexible rubber goods such as hoses or weatherstripping. Properties [ ] EPM is considered a valuable elastomer due to its useful EPM is an EPM are flexible at low temperatures (with EPM can remain heat resistant up to 130°C and up to 160°C with EPM. Polymer properties [ ] Property Type EPM Property 5-200 Ethylene content percentage by weight 45-80 Diene content percentage by weight 0-15 0.855-0.880 Property type EPM Property 30–95 7–21 100–600% 20–60% Useful temperature range (°C) −50 to +160 Fair to good Fair to good Fair to good Electrical properties Uses [ ] EPM has a large number of uses due to the many ways in which the EPM is even more prevalent as an Producers [ ] Major producers and suppliers of EPM include Manufacture [ ] EPM manufacture uses the same EPM can be formed (with a wide range of See also [ ] References [ ]

Following the principles of carbon emission taxes, Extended Producer Responsibility is a concept where manufacturers and importers of products bear a significant degree of responsibility for the environmental impacts of their products throughout the product life-cycle. The EPR legislation in India makes it mandatory for companies to establish a collect-back scheme for the plastic they produce. This means that it is the responsibility of the producer to ensure the products they produce will enter back into the Circular Economy. WHY DOES EPR MATTER? If not managed correctly, plastic waste poses a critical threat to our environment. Considering the increased use of the material and its numerous applications, the amount of plastic waste has seen an exponential rise in the last couple of years. It's therefore crucial for plastic producers andmanufacturers to manage the collection and processing of the plastic waste they produce. HOW DO WE HELP BUSINESSES WITH THEIR EPR NEEDS? Being an ethical sourcing platform for recycled plastic from coastal regions in India we are able to provide our plastic collection information as EPR Credits for brand partners. We provide added value through: • TRANSPARENCY, TRACEABILITY & TECHNOLOGY We use our technology platform to trace all the buy-sell transactions and trace where the collected plastic waste is coming from. We thrive on our transparent and fair trade model. • CERTIFICATION PROCESS Being WFTO and OBP certified, we take full responsibi...

Paris —The flexible packaging industry brought a nuanced message to the global plastics treaty talks. Executives joined the recent United Nations negotiating session in Paris to urge countries to include extended producer responsibility programs in any agreement. The idea is that companies But they also had a second message for "It's easy to bash things and flexible packaging takes its fair share of bashing," said Graham Houlder, managing director of the European flexible packaging organization Ceflex. "It's normally referred to as complicated multimaterial packaging which can't be recycled, which No. 1, is not true." Houlder spoke during a May 29 interview in Paris on the opening day of a five-day negotiating session, where he and a Ceflex delegation were advocating for financial measures like EPR to be in the treaty. Fees on companies responsible for putting the packaging on the market are crucial to helping to pay for recycling, Ceflex said. "To make it work, you need EPR because it's not realistic to expect to collect, sort and recycle these materials without some form of subsidization," he said. It said the treaty should include binding global requirements that plastic packaging be designed for recycling, that recycling targets be set at the national level and that governments create "sustainably funded" systems so that recyclers can get consistent feedstock and stability to invest. Legislation can ensure that all companies pay their share and those that spend money t...

“ICIS price forecasts have helped us allocate resources smartly and efficiently, to anticipate price changes, and to buy PP at favourable prices. The reports have saved our internal team a lot of time and effort when analysing pricing trends.” Sante Serrecchia, Administrative & Purchasing Manager, Ondaplast HOUSTON (ICIS)–As the US state of Maine becomes the first state to enact an extended producer responsibility (EPR) law for plastic packaging, momentum behind recycling legislation only seems to be strengthening as a chemical trade group association backs an “American-designed” producer responsibility system to develop a circular economy. A stewardship plan or EPR plan has long helped European countries with their waste management efforts by holding producers responsible for the end-of-life stage of plastic packaging. The concept has slowly But as recycling policy shifts into incentivising the growth of a circular economy, many states have already put forth their own proposals to reduce plastic waste. Some of these include deposit return schemes, minimum recycled content usage, the adoption of chemical recycling and extended producer responsibility programmes. In 2020, only 12% of plastics were recycled in the US with the rest disposed of by incineration, being placed in landfill, or exported to other countries. With 40% of Americans lacking equitable recycling programmes, according to the Recycling Partnership, many local governments and environmental stakeholders and t...

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Producers of single-use plastic packaging and plastic single-use foodservice ware who do business in California must join a producer responsibility organization (PRO) by Jan. 1, 2024 to continue selling, importing, or distributing these materials in that state. The Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (SB 54) creates the most sweeping extended producer responsibility (EPR) program and strictest plastic reduction targets in the country, attest its backers. SB 54 will not only impose mandates on manufacturers, but governments, regional agencies, recycling facilities, and haulers, as well as retailers and others who sell the covered materials. For instance, jurisdictions and recyclers will be required to include the materials in their collection and recycling programs. And disposal, recycling, and composting operations will have to submit information around amount and types of materials they handle and their destinations. Most of the obligation falls on the PROs whose main charges will be to ensure plastic is recycled and to pay to develop new recycling infrastructure—such as reuse or refill infrastructure and facility retrofits— to meet SB 54’s requirements. Here are some primary targets: Jan. 1, 2025: • Expanded polystyrene foam foodservice ware must hit 25 percent recycling rate or it will be banned from sale. Jan. 1, 2027: • PRO shall source reduce to less than 10 percent of plastic covered materials. (e.g., refilling, concentrating...

WHAT IS EPR? Following the principles of carbon emission taxes, Extended Producer Responsibility is a concept where manufacturers and importers of products bear a significant degree of responsibility for the environmental impacts of their products throughout the product life-cycle. Responsibility for disposal may be fiscal, physical, or a combination of the two but the bottom line is that one way or another EPR makes it mandatory for companies to collect-back and recycle their products’ waste – either directly or through the help of a third party. WHY EPR matters? Today more than ever plastic waste, if not managed correctly, poses a critical threat to our environment. Considering the increased usage of this material and its numerous application, The count of plastic waste has seen an exponential rise in the last couple of years. It's a crucial task for plastic producers andmanufacturers to manage and command the whole line of collection, processing and managing the plastic waste they produce. Plastics For Change is on a mission to give a second life to this precious material by helping producers properly recycling their plastic waste. If you are a brand and you are interested in our EPR services, read on. Righteous investments We at PFC ensure that the funds obtained through EPR are being used to address the core issues in collection: Indeed, collection alone cannot be the solution. For EPR to be really sustainable we need to invest in the collection and recycling infrastr...

2023 could be the year when the reality of extended producer responsibility for plastics packaging in the U.S. begins to take shape, with the first-mover states of California, Colorado, Maine and Oregon all starting to write EPR rules. Regulators will be considering things like That was apparent as I watched the online broadcast of a Jan. 31 I realize this may sound dry to some of you, tracking agency meetings where they write regulations. But all these EPR discussions are going to have a big role in packaging choices. The goal in all those states is figuring out how to build — and pay for — much better recycling systems for packaging. The general idea of EPR is to have There are many benefits of plastics packaging, hence its huge growth in recent decades. But does anyone think the U.S.'s current 13 percent recycling rate for plastic packaging is good enough? Which brings us to these dry-sounding EPR implementation meetings in state governments. There will be a lot of thorny questions on the agenda, like implementing a plastic pollution fee in California. SB-54 requires companies to pay $500 million a year, starting in 2027, into a fund to clean up legacy plastic pollution in the state. Of that, $150 million will A yet-to-be-formed industry group, called a Producer Responsibility Organization, will figure out how to structure that $500 million payment, under a Sixty percent, or At the meeting, one lawyer who works on the industry side noted that if, as CalRecycle estimates...

EPR is used in electrical cable insulation, and in many flexible rubber goods such as hoses or weatherstripping. Properties [ ] EPM is considered a valuable elastomer due to its useful EPM is an EPM are flexible at low temperatures (with EPM can remain heat resistant up to 130°C and up to 160°C with EPM. Polymer properties [ ] Property Type EPM Property 5-200 Ethylene content percentage by weight 45-80 Diene content percentage by weight 0-15 0.855-0.880 Property type EPM Property 30–95 7–21 100–600% 20–60% Useful temperature range (°C) −50 to +160 Fair to good Fair to good Fair to good Electrical properties Uses [ ] EPM has a large number of uses due to the many ways in which the EPM is even more prevalent as an Producers [ ] Major producers and suppliers of EPM include Manufacture [ ] EPM manufacture uses the same EPM can be formed (with a wide range of See also [ ] References [ ]