What is Plasteax?
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In a nutshell, Plasteax is a database of plastic packaging waste data. It provides information on what happens to packaging post-consumer - things like; leakage rates, collection rates, mismanagement rates, recycling rates etc.
Plasteax data can be used for plastic footprints, for making strategic decisions, and for eco-design. It is a reference for various types of polymers and packaging types, in a large variety of countries, for different periods of time.
Plastic is potentially harmful for the environment when it becomes waste. Depending on how plastic waste is managed within a country, we can determine an estimate for the footprint of a given product or service.
How much plastic is recycled? How much is mismanaged? How much is well managed? Answering these questions enables you to gauge the overall impact of plastic consumption, and indicates ways to take action.
Plasteax simplifies the process of collecting and analysing quality end-of-life data. The Plasteax team at aggregates dozens of data sources that are processed using the to determine the end-of-life "fate" of several different polymers, as several different packaging types, in over 70 different countries.
Either with the or via an Excel spreadsheet Plasteax provides the specific data needed to make more strategic, compliant, and lower impact design decisions.
To calculate a plastic footprint or to make informed decisions about packaging first you need your primary data: what materials you have access to, what products you are packaging, what that packaging is made of, and what processes you use to manufacture it. Then, Plasteax gives you the secondary data; information and insights about what happens to packaging post-consumer.
There is no point in creating wonderfully recyclable packaging if the country you are selling it in has no recycling infrastructure. In that case if you want to lower your impact on the environment you're better off investing in reducing the footprint of the packaging by improving the re-usability of the material, or investing the local recycling infrastructure itself.
These are the kind of insights you can take from Plasteax.
