The shortlist for the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2019 has been published. The winners will be announced on April 11, during the Plastics Recycling Show Europe taking place at the RAI Amsterdam.
The seven different award categories this year are: Building & Construction Product of the Year, Automotive, Electrical or Electronic Product of the Year, Household & Leisure Product of the Year, Plastic Packaging Product of the Year, Product Technology Innovation of the Year, Recycling Machinery Innovation of the Year and Plastics Recycling Ambassador of the Year.
“With an extended number of categories and 40 finalists confirmed, the second edition of the awards is a perfect illustration of the continuous technological development and growing innovation in the sector. This year’s finalists demonstrate not only their goal to improve the efficiency and quality of plastics recycling processes but also the goal of making plastic products more circular,” said Ton Emans, president.
Plastics Recycling Awards Europe Finalists:
Building & Construction Product of the Year – interior and exterior construction products of all types
•MPO Easy Channel drainage system by Multiport GmbH made from recycled HDPE and PP packaging waste
•CREATION 55 PVC wood effect flooring from GERFLOR
•DAN-Board color LDPE construction and flooring plates from Danrec A/S
•iD Revolution flooring by Tarkett featuring backing layer made from recycled polyvinyl butyral (PVB) from laminated glass car windshields
Automotive, Electrical or Electronic Product of the Year – plastic parts used in automotive and electrical products
•Luxus 16623-210 polypropylene material for car interiors for Group Renault Nissan Mitsubishi, as used in the Nissan Micra
•The recycled plastics demo car – which kick-starts Volvo Cars new plastics strategy, featuring more than 170 different parts made from recycled plastics
•Grundig Oven by Arçelik featuring high performance plastic parts made with recycled polyamides from ghost (abandoned) fishing nets and waste yarn
•DellEMC Closed Loop Plastic Recycling, a plastic bezel made from recycled ABS from free takeback end of life electronic products
•Grundig Tumble Dryer Bottom BaseBoard by Arçelik made from 100 percent recycled post-consumer ABS
Household & Leisure Product of the Year – covering all types of domestic and leisure goods (excluding electricals)
•BMA Axia® Vision 24/7 office chair by Flokk AS containing 57 percent recycled plastic materials
•PBD drawstring collection bag by Cedo Folien- und Haushaltsprodukte GmbH containing 90 percent post-consumer recycled plastic
•Plaswood Edge Bench from Plaswood – part of RPC bpi Recycled Products made from 100 percent recycled plastics
•Odyssey Innovation Paradise Marine Plastic Kayak made from 100 percent recycled HDPE from consumer and industrial sources including plastic recycled from the marine environment.
Plastic Packaging Product of the Year – judged on design innovation with recycled content and design for recycling
• Fairy Ocean Plastic bottle from Procter & Gamble made from 10 percent ocean plastic and 90 percent post-consumer PET
• Reborn shrink film by CEISA Packaging made from 50-100 percent recycled content
• NORDIVENT ECO 50 packaging film by Nordfolien GmbH – fully recyclable and with minimum 50 percent recycled content
• Fillbee®, the Zero Waste Returnable Pack bottle holder by DS Smith Plastics – returnable pack for four or six bottles that fits existing beverage crates
• X-EnviroShrink shrink film by RPC bpi protec – 100 percent recyclable with minimum 50 percent recycled content
• Sustainable, 100 percent rPET, flat wine bottle by Garçon Wines and RPC M&H Plastics, innovative mail order wine bottle
• B-NAT recyclable shrink film with bio-based base layer by Yorkshire Packaging Systems
• DPB DrankenPalletBeheer HDPE pallet by Cabka-IPS and Dranken Pallet Beheer Nederland – worn out pallets are continuously recycled to make new ones in a closed loop
Product Technology Innovation of the Year – improving recyclable plastic products or incorporating recycled materials in product production
• Replacing virgin plastics in multi-layer flexible packaging by Newcycling re-granulates, APK, Mondi, Henkel and Borealis
• Bin-e workplace collection bin by Infocode – an IoT-based smart waste bin that recognises, sorts and compresses recyclables automatically
• REC-NIR-BLACK masterbatch by Ampacet – black masterbatch that is NIR-transparent to allow sorting with near-infrared optical sensors for recycling of black plastics
• Thermal Anaerobic Conversion chemical recycling process by Plastic Energy
• Sustane polymer compounds by RPC bpi recycled products
• Clariter Technology, a chemical recycling process for non-recyclable polyolefinic plastics
• Cadel deinking process for LPDE, HDPE, PP and PET
Recycling Machinery Innovation of the Year – increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of plastic recycling processes
• COREMA® Cascade Extrusion System, extrusion line for chemical recycling of post-consumer thermoplastics by Interseroh Dienstleistungs GmbH and EREMA Group
• recoSTAR PET iV+ extrusion line for post-consumer PET bottles by Starlinger & Co GmbH
• Gorillabelt T automatic and continuous screen changer for plastics recycling by Cofit
• Extrusion line for polypropylene recycling by Rialti
• Ecoimpatto mixed plastics extrusion line for post-consumer waste by icma San Giorgio
Plastics Recycling Ambassador of the Year – individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to European plastics recycling
• Gian De Belder, Principal Scientist, Procter & Gamble
• Christina Busk, Environmental Policy Manager, CEISA Packaging
• Erica Canaia, Sales director, FIMIC
• Manfred Hackl, chief executive officer, EREMA Group
• David Katz, Founder and chief executive officer, The Plastic Bank
• Carlos Monreal, chief executive officer, Plastic Energy
• Javier A. Vázquez Sánchez, chief executive officer, ABN
The distinguished panel of judges for the awards includes: 2018 Plastics Recycling Ambassador of the Year Willemijn Peeters, chief executive officer of Searious Business, the social enterprise committed to preventing plastics from ending up in our environment, Bart Bleijerveld Founder and Design Lead at Better Future Factory, Rune Thoralfsson, owner and director of Norfolier GreenTec, the largest film recycler in the Nordic region, Ton Emans president of Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) and director Group Recycling in Cedo and Karen Laird Editor of Plastics News Europe.
Open to organisations and individuals across Europe who are involved in the recycling of plastic materials, the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe are organised jointly by Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) and Crain Communications, organizers of the Plastics Recycling Show Europe: www.prseventeurope.com
Published in the March 2019 Edition
