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Life cycle assessment to study the potential impacts of plastics recycling

Environment

AUTHOR : Editorial Team

Plastics recycling reduces the use of natural resources and cuts greenhouse gas emissions compared to the use of virgin resources. This is what the Life Cycle Assessment carried out by ADEME (French Agency for Ecological Transition) is studying as part of the “National Recycling Report”. We spoke to ADEME to find out more about their methodology and the issues involved.

French national recycling report

Since 2002, the “National Recycling Report”1 (NRR), published by ADEME, has presented the main trends in recycling figures in France for the various key materials of the French economy, including plastics. It measures the industry’s degree of circularity, based on the quantities of materials produced in France, imported, exported, recycled and reincorporated.

Calculated per tonne of Recycling Raw Material (RRM) ready for use in France, the ADEME’s NRR provides flows at the various stages of recycling, socio-economic data for the value chain and environmental results.

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