Terminology and Standards In circumstances where it provides an environmental benefit to utilize a third party’s post-industrial waste fraction, this will be perceived as part of the rPET percentage. Calculation At Faerch, PET trays need to be mono-materials to ensure full and efficient recyclability. They typically consist of multiple PET layers designed in an A-B or A-B-A structure with the top A-layers in direct food contact. The design helps meeting the highest standards for food safety while allowing the maximum measures of postconsumer content. It also contributes to maximising production efficiency at the food packers’ processing lines. The layers typically contain different material types, i.e. post-consumer recycled content, post-industrial, virgin or regrind. When the A-layer material is made from postconsumer content, a special surface treatment ensures food safety and the required functional properties. Beside the PET layers, trays typically contain a certain measure of food safe additives to improve processing and end-use performance. When calculating the share of recycled content in a tray, all these different categories need to be taken into account. To be accurate, regrind requires special attention, as it contains a blend of these categories itself including post-consumer content, additives and potentially virgin or specially treated post-consumer material. The share of recycled content needs to reflect the share of post-consumer content in the steadystate of the cyclic process, which should correspond to the overall mass balance, i.e. the ratio between postconsumer material on the one hand and virgin material and additives on the other hand going into the factory. APET trays from Faerch can contain from approximately 80%-100% post-consumer content. For example, in an APET 80% tray, if no regrind was used, trays would be made from 10% virgin and the remaining 90% of the tray would be post-consumer content. However, as regrind from production is used, which itself not only contains post-consumer content, but also a certain virgin share, over time the share of recycled content stabilises at 80%. Post-consumer recycled content Faerch will on a mass-balance level have more than 70% post-consumer recycled content (PCR) in the total consumption in the PET production. APET, MAPET® II and CPET products from Faerch, are made with multiple recipes with different shares of postconsumer content: APET: APET Standard APET Heat Seal MAPET® I APET Matt MAPET® II MAPET® II (100%) Heat Seal (100%) APET Anti mist (100%) 82% PCR 82% PCR 82% PCR 86,2% PCR 85,7% PCR 99,3% PCR 99,3% PCR 99,3% PCR CPET: CPET Standard* CPET Frost** 69-75% PCR 64-70% PCR In circumstances where it provides an environmental benefit to utilize a third party’s postindustrial waste fraction, Faerch will substitute up to approximately 10% on circular economic grounds. Faerch will never include internal virgin scrap as part of the postconsumer and post-industrial percentage. *Dual colour applications will have a lower rPET percentage due to the complexity of the structure. 2 Recycled PET in Food Packaging // February 2020 - Faerch A/S **Never containing PI
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