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Digital passports for recyclable plastic packaging.

Recycling consortium R-Cycle used Twintag-powered QR codes to create digital passports that track the material composition and production history of plastic packaging.

Plastic pouch and bottle with a digital overlay representing a packaging passport

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Packaging traceability and recycling

R-Cycle is building an open, globally applicable tracing standard that gives each plastic product a digital passport with its material and processing history.

Recycling needs better data.

Accurate sorting and processing of plastics depends on standardized data shared across the value chain.

Phone showing R-Cycle traceability data in front of printed frozen fruit packaging

Production stage data.

Show information specific to each production stage of the packaging.

Printing traceability.

Keep data tracking smooth during the printing process.

Recycling identification.

Make packaging easy to identify for recycling, in line with the open standard.

A Digital Product Passport prototype on packaging.

Twintag-powered QR codes on plastic bags and printed films reached several milestones: stage-specific information, smooth tracking during printing and alignment with the open tracing standard.