Assisting the integration of recycled plastics
Providing tools
ecosystem updated and sent a practical guide on integrating recycled plastics to producers (also available English). This specifies the key stages of the integration process and provides answers to the main questions that producers have. The guide and the accompanying tools were presented during the Plastics morning meeting co-organised with the FIEEC on 28 May 2019.
Providing assistance to producers in recycled plastic integration projects
ecosystem is providing assistance to Hager on recycled materials integration
Within the context of a pilot project, the Hager Group is using ecosystem’s know-how to work on substituting the virgin material of two plastic parts in electrical cabinets with recycled materials from WEEE. This circular economy initiative gave ecosystem the opportunity to provide its expertise on structuring recycled plastic integration projects and its knowledge on companies offering quality recycled plastics from WEEE. This work has enabled the Hager Group to identify a supplier able to offer recycled plastic meeting technical requirements and the volumes needed. Indeed, 85% of polymer flush-mounted electric cabinets by Hager now comprise 33% of recycled polystyrene. Discussions are continuing with ecosystem around recycled plastics challenges.
ecosystem is providing assistance to Edafim
ecosystem also advised and assisted Edafim, a drinking fountain manufacturer, on the integration of recycled plastics. The company is continuing its initiative because it wanted to generalise eco-design in all of its products’ life cycles. This approach seems to have convinced the Ademe, because Edafim has won a call for proposals focusing on product eco-design and aimed at companies in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (AURA PEP’s) region.
The approach of a committed manufacturer like Hager is fully in line with the transition to a circular economy, by giving a second life to plastics in new equipment. Our role is to provide it with our technical and regulatory expertise, and to foster its relationship with stakeholders in the recycled plastics sector.
Pierre-Marie Assimon,
Head of Studies and Eco-design, ecosystem
