Plastics Recycler Rewarded for its Efforts to Prevent Plastic Waste From Reaching Oceans

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Hong Kong-based plastics recycler Greencore Resources Ltd. announced that its Indonesia plastics recycling facility in Surabaya has received prestigious ocean-bound plastics (OBP) certification. The certification, launched by Control Union and Zero Plastic Ocean, is an innovative scheme to protect plastic waste from reaching marine environments.

The certification demonstrates that the company’s plastics reprocessing plant uses ocean-bound plastics. The facility collects and processes a wide range of plastic scrap categories such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polycarbonate (PC), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyamide (PA) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

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The company had devoted several months in preparing the facility for the third-party on-site audit process. It received the certificate earlier this month, thus becoming the first recycling company to be ocean-bound-plastic third-party certified in the entire country. It must be noted that Indonesia had recently surpassed China to become the world’s largest marine polluter.

The OBP certification testifies that no child labor has been used in the whole chain of collection and treatment of plastic waste and that waste pickers have been paid a fair price for their work. Furthermore, it demonstrates that all OBP collected has been treated to the highest available environmental standards.