USFFI Advances Flexible Packaging Recycling

The US Flexible Film Initiative (USFFI), a 501(c)(6) nonprofit membership organization working to demonstrate scalable solutions for the recovery and recycling of flexible plastic packaging, has awarded its first round of contracts. Through this initial round, USFFI has partnered with Valemi Inc. and GreenWaste, two companies with Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF) collecting residential recyclables in California, as well as EFS Plastics and Merlin Plastics, two plastic film reclaimers. To date, USFFI has moved more than 3 million pounds of flexible plastic packaging from California MRF collection programs to reclaimers in the U.S. and Canada for processing. Following the successful completion of these loads into a variety of commodities, USFFI has facilitated offtake agreements supporting up to eight loads per month of recycled flexible plastic. Consistent with USFFI’s mission, the awards are intended to help test and demonstrate approaches that can support the collection, sorting and processing of flexible plastic packaging at scale. The initiative is initially focused on California, with the potential to scale to other states with emerging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs.

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