The online platform Monitoring Recyclates for Europe (MORE), which records the volumes of recycled polymers that European converters use in their products, is also now being employed by the EU-funded Plastics Recycling from and for Home Appliances, Toys and Textile (PRecycling) project (www.precycling-project.eu).

The European Plastic Converters Association (EuPC, Brussels; www.plasticsconverters.eu), which launched MORE in 2019, said the platform is being tapped by PRecycling in order to develop tracking and tracing methodologies that will allow full digitalisation of the recyclates management.

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PRecycling aims to produce high-quality recyclates from plastics waste streams by developing a methodology for sorting, sampling, tracing, recycling techniques, and analysis procedures of both the plastics waste streams and recyclates.

The 17 project partners comprise academic institutes, public bodies, companies, and industry associations. Some of them include the EuPC, BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com), Circularise (The Hague, Netherlands; www.circularise.com), Centexbel (Brussels; www.centexbel.be), Arcelik (Istanbul, Turkey; www.arcelikglobal.com/en), the Technological Institute for Children’s Products and Leisure (AIJU, Alicante, Spain; www.aiju.es/en/), Fraunhofer-Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Verpackung (www.ivv.fraunhofer.de), and Biog3D (Athens; www.biog3d.gr).