How To: Avoid Recycling Fraud

What happens when recycled plastics become more expensive than virgin plastics? Fraud: virgin plastics start being passed off as as post-consumer and post-industrial recycled. Then how do you know if the plastics you buy actually come from recycled feedstock? You need to know where they come from.

Today, best-in-class approaches to certifying recycled materials depend on time-honored methods: audits and certifications. But audits are occasional at best, and certifications only verify a small sample of goods produced.

The only way to make sure that your plastics suppliers are selling something truly recycled is to monitor their inputs and outputs and make sure they add up, a.k.a. traceability. At Sourcemap we deploy traceability in supply chains where it's never been before, and we use it to verify supply chains are free of anything from deforestation to child labor. Find out more about traceability at Sourcemap by visiting our traceability page and requesting a demo of the best-in-class assurance your plastics are really from secondary sources:

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