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TruCycle®
Define product and packaging goals, evaluate the recyclability or compostability, and develop actionable plans for improved recovery across the globe.
TruCycle helps you meet your packaging goals.
TruCycle is our keystone recyclability assessment. It helps you understand how your package performs in various recovery systems worldwide and provides insights to improve your packaging’s circularity. You can use it to evaluate and improve packaging design and development, inform communication and marketing claims, and refine your packaging strategy in the marketplace.
Our fact-based, stepwise approach incorporates data, modeling, and expert insights techniques. We have decades of experience in ground research and testing and extensive knowledge of the material recovery value chains. Our modeling methods offer real solutions for real problems.
TruCycle is a global service and stepwise recyclability or compostability assessment that informs your packaging strategy
From design, development, and marketing claims to brand communications and strategy in the marketplace, TruCycle can give you a competitive edge. Our global perspective ensures sustainable packaging solutions that transcend geographical boundaries.
We tailor our approach to your needs, offering you standard or customizable TruCycle assessments.
TruCycle studies packages at each step of the recycling supply chain, including manufacturing, retailer, consumer, recovery program, MRF, compost operator, and reprocessor. We offer you our experience in recycling, recovery, and composting operations, along with our analytical capabilities to document, evaluate, and determine the feasibility of your options. TruCycle is an expert evaluation of the recyclability or compostability of product packaging options.
We use various techniques to attain a thorough understanding of your packaging's recyclability or compostability. We cultivate informed internal and external communications on recyclability or compostability. Through the data-driven evaluation, we affirm existing successes or drive new innovations in design-for-recyclability or design-for-compostability. We also can combine assessments with a screening-level life cycle assessment (LCA) for enhanced insights.
We’re here to help you identify solutions that solve today’s problems and set you up for success in the future.
Outcomes
Evaluation of current packaging
Options for improving recyclability or compostability
Assessment of packaging waste reduction and reuse opportunities aligned with packaging strategy
Validating marketing claims regulations and labelling standards
Internal and external sustainability communications support
Achievement circularity goals
How It Works
Recyclability
COLLECTION: Assess inclusion/exclusion of packaging in community recycling programs.
SORTABILITY: Evaluate packaging’s movement through MRF and probability of inclusion in correct bale.
END MARKETS: Assess the compatibility of package design and the marketability of the bale for reprocessors.
Compostability
COLLECTION: Assess material acceptance at community organics programs.
SORTABILITY: Evaluate material compatibility with composter configurations.
END MARKETS: Determine the acceptability of the 90- to 120- day finished compost to end users by evaluating nutrient/resale value, or use.
The Results
We deliver a detailed account of how compatible a material is with each life cycle stage of the analysis, along with a high-level summary in a report card format.
TruCycle Assessment
RRS delivers a detailed account of how compatible a package is with each life cycle stage in the analysis, along with a high-level summary in a report card format.
The TruCycle Recyclability Assessment provides:
Detailed analysis at each step in TruCycle
Collection Programs
MRF Compatibility
End Markets
High level summary in accessible format allows comparison
Supported by detailed report.
RRS combines deep roots in the recovery sector with leading knowledge of packaging to offer expert solutions for claims, design, development and communications. The TruCycle Recyclability Assessment offers an objective, expert analysis of true recyclability.
