Professional GRS Recycled bag manufacturer - Shunxingyuan Packaging

With the increasing environmental awareness in all walks of life, the introduction of recycled materials has become inevitable. Themes such as the recycling and reuse of production materials and the promotion of a circular economy for environmental protection are constantly being raised and emphasized. The GRS (Global Recycled Standard) focuses on recycled content, social and environmental practices, and chemical use throughout the supply chain, making it a focal point for recycled supply chains.

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What are Recycled bags, PCR bags, and PIR bags? What are the uses of PCR and PIR bags? Why switch to PCR and PIR bags? Are they environmentally friendly?

1. GRS Certified Recycled Bags are More Environmentally Friendly

With many countries in Europe and America introducing new tax rules on plastic packaging bags, a plastic tax is levied if the recycled proportion of packaging bags is less than 30%. These new tax rules are also intended to stimulate higher levels of plastic waste recycling and collection, diverting it from landfills or incineration, representing a more environmentally friendly measure.

PE materials transferred during the manufacturing process, and PE materials produced by household, commercial, and industrial facilities, are recycled, sorted, cleaned, pelletized, blown film, printed, and made into bags to continue producing PE materials and PE bags. This achieves circular regeneration and reuse, effectively reducing the extraction of new PE pellets from petroleum. This allows for the reuse of existing PE materials while meeting human packaging needs, continuously using and recycling, in a cyclical process that does not increase the existing amount of PE plastic on Earth, reducing energy consumption and pollution from PE pellet production, and reducing resource waste and pollution from incinerating PE bags.

Therefore, GRS recycled bags, or recyclable bags, refer to bags that meet customer requirements, achieve internationally recognized environmental standards, and are truly recyclable. They are an important product in environmentally friendly packaging.

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2. Introduction to PCR and PIR Bags

The internationally recognized Global Recycled Standard (GRS) certification clearly states that only pre-consumer recycled polybag (PIR) and post-consumer recycled polybag (PCR) materials are considered recycled content. Therefore, 30% recycled, 50% recycled, 100% recycled refers to the percentage of recycled material by weight in the product or packaging.

Post-consumer recycled polybags (PCR) are materials generated by households or commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities as end-product users that cannot be reused for their intended purpose. This includes materials recovered from the distribution chain. That is, bags recycled after consumer use.

PIR bags are pre-consumer recycled polybags, materials diverted from waste streams during the manufacturing process. This excludes the reuse of certain materials, such as rework, regrinding, or residues generated during processing and reused in the same process. That is, bags recycled without going through consumer use.

The Transaction Certificate (TC) is an important document proving recyclable materials. The TC is also an important way for organizations to oversee the entire supply chain's compliance with the Global Recycled Standard (GRS).

In simple terms, the GRS certificate reflects the factory's qualifications, meaning that the factory is qualified to produce GRS products, but it can also produce ordinary products. So, which products are ordinary, and which are recyclable?

Products with a TC certificate are GRS recyclable materials! In other words, the GRS certificate is proof of the factory's qualifications, while the TC certificate is proof of a specific batch of goods.

Therefore, the TC certificate will also contain specific information such as the recycled content and weight of the product.

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3. Introduction to GRS Certified Recycled Bag Production Factory

Shunxingyuan Packaging's GRS recycled bags have many advantages, including various styles, transparency, powder-free, easy opening, recyclability, and clear and firm printing. Shunxingyuan Packaging's GRS certification covers different recycled material ratios and materials, including 30% RECYCLED, 50% RECYCLED, 70% RECYCLED, and 100% RECYCLED, as well as various materials such as LDPE, HDPE, PPE, CPE, and PP. Many bag types are available, including adhesive bags, gusset bags, zipper bags, bellows bags, flat bags, vacuum bags, wire bags, hook bags, button bags, header bags, paperboard bags, hanging bags, shrink film, and stretch film, meeting the requirements of different customers for recycled bags.

Shunxingyuan Packaging has successfully issued thousands of TC transaction certificates, efficiently supporting the customization of recyclable bags.

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