The difference between recyclable plastic bags and virgin material plastic bags

There are many types of plastic bags. Many customers cannot distinguish why recyclable plastic bags can be recycled, why virgin material plastic bags are not recycled products, and what virgin material plastic bags actually are. Recycled Bags. Shunxingyuan Packaging, a recyclable plastic bag manufacturer, will answer them one by one.

1、 GRS 、 EN15343:2008 Certified Recyclable plastic bags and virgin material plastic bags Difference

Virgin material is refined from petroleum. Its characteristics are milky white and crystal clear particles without any impurities, good physical properties, and easy processing. Products made from new materials are generally colorless and odorless, with good gloss, etc.

Recycled materials generally come from two sources:

Post-consumer recycled material PCR （ post-consumer recycled polybag ），generated by households or commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities as end-product users. Through processes such as recycling, sorting, cleaning, granulation, film blowing, printing, and bag making, plastic materials and plastic packaging bags continue to be produced. This achieves cyclical regeneration and reuse, effectively reducing the extraction of new plastic granules from petroleum. This allows for the reuse of existing plastic materials while meeting human packaging needs, continuously using and recycling, in a cyclical process that does not increase the earth's existing plastic stock, reducing energy consumption and pollution from plastic granule production, and reducing resource waste and pollution from plastic bag incineration.

Pre-consumer recycled material P IR （ pre-consumer recycled polybag ) Materials diverted from waste streams during the manufacturing process. Excluding the reuse of certain materials, such as rework, regrinding, or residues generated during processing and reused in the same process; that is, recycled plastic bags that do not go through consumer consumption.

2、 Virgin material plastic bags are not what customers require. Recycled Bags

In internationally recognized global recycling standards GRS certification, EN15343:2008 the certification clearly states that only pre-consumer ( pre-consumer recycled polybag ) PIR and post-consumer ( post-consumer recycled polybag ) PCR ) materials are considered recycled content. Greater than 20% recycled material content is required to apply for certification; greater than 50% recycled material is required to apply for printing certification LOGO label; therefore, what the customer requires 30% recycled、50% recycled、100% recycled refers to the proportion of recycled materials by weight in the product or packaging ，not virgin material plastic bags 。

3、GRS 、 EN15343:2008 Certified Recyclable plastic bags Differences in production between virgin material plastic bags and recycled plastic bags

GRS 、 EN15343:2008 Certified recyclable plastic bags must use dedicated materials for dedicated purposes. Each batch of recycled raw materials can be traced to which orders it was used for, how much was lost in the process, how much was shipped, and how much was in stock, with a complete material balance sheet.

The warehousing of recycled raw materials, both incoming and outgoing, will be separately recorded clearly;

The production of recyclable products in each process has separate daily records, with a greater emphasis on traceability ；

When switching from non-recyclable product to recyclable product production, the machines must be cleaned first before production;

Records of recyclable plastic bag products in and out of the warehouse are clearly kept, and relevant records are kept for a long time;

When recyclable plastic bags are transferred between processes, they use special labels, containers, machines, and areas, and are not mixed or contaminated with non-recyclable products.

Virgin material plastic bags do not require traceability and do not need such meticulous actions ，only routine internal control is performed 。

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