WHO IS POLYREC®?

RECORD YOUR
CIRCULAR
PolyREC membership is open
®

to any organization that wishes

PolyREC® is a non-profit industry

POLYMERS
to contribute to building reliable
association that monitors,
and accurate data on plastics
verifies, and reports on European
recycling and recycled material
recycled plastics data.
use in Europe.

As an official Circular Plastics Alliance This includes plastics raw material

(CPA) data collector, it contributes producers, converters, recyclers, waste
towards tracking the progress on operators, retailers, brand-owners, as
the uptake of 10 million tonnes of well as Extended Producer Responsibility
recycled plastics in new products by schemes and public authorities.
2025. PolyREC® uses RecoTrace™ - a
multi-polymer data monitoring tool for
recycled plastics in Europe.
Through establishing one common
data collection system for all polymers,
PolyREC® seeks to ensure traceability,
transparency, and trust in recycled
material along the entire plastics value POLYREC® MEMBERS
chain.

More information:
www.polyrec.eu
 Credibility via auditing
RecoTrace™ users are invited to audit/
certify volumes with EuCertPlast, RecyClass
or any other CPA approved audit scheme.
PolyREC® advises RecoTrace™ users on a list
Record your circular polymers now
of recognised auditors. WWW.RECOTRACE.COM
WHAT IS RECOTRACE™?
Building robust plastics
RecoTrace™ is a multi-polymer online data
collection system. It records and monitors
recycling datasets
data, on both plastics recycling tonnages and Understanding the size and dynamics of
recycled material use, across Europe. the European recycled plastics market will RecoTrace™ enables companies to
help inform future legislation and investment track their progress towards circularity
The system builds on Recovinyl®’s 20+ years of data
decisions that accelerate the transition to a
collection experience and expertise. and make their tonnages count
circular economy for plastics.
towards the CPA goal, as well as
national voluntary or legal recycling
Collected data from recyclers and recycled content targets.
and/or converters

Recycling Converting

Recycler’s Input to Recycler’s Converter’s Converter’s

total input recycling total output input output
operation

Accepted polymers: polyolefins (PO), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyvinyl

chloride (PVC), polystyrene (PS) expanded polystyrene (EPS), extruded polystyrene
Accepted
(XPS),polymers: polyolefins
polyamide (PO), polyethylene
(PA), acrylonitrile terephthalate
butadiene (PET),
styrene (ABS) andpolyvinyl chloride
polycarbonate (PVC),
(PC).
polystyrene (PS) expanded polystyrene (EPS), extruded polystyrene (XPS), polyamide (PA),
acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polycarbonate (PC).