From waste to working material
Europe consumes 950,000 tonnes of beverage cartons every year. Only 35% are effectively recycled. We give the rest a second life.
How PolyAl cuts Scope 3 for your customer — and your customer's customer
70–90% of an industrial manufacturer's footprint sits in Scope 3 (category 1: purchased goods & services). Swapping part of your virgin HDPE for PolyAl pellets shrinks that footprint twice downstream: at the converter who buys the pellet, and at the brand who buys the finished part. It is traceable, post-consumer recycled content — reportable under the GHG Protocol, CSRD/ESRS E1 and CDP.
Cuts their Scope 3.1 by up to 80% on the manufactured part
- Each tonne of PolyAl replaces ~1 t of virgin HDPE and avoids ~1.6 t CO₂e in category 3.1 (purchased goods).
- Batch-level EPD and product carbon footprint (PCF) — audit-ready for CSRD and CDP questionnaires.
- Meets PPWR recycled-content targets (10–35% depending on packaging) with no mould redesign.
- Boosts EcoVadis scoring and eligibility for EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) tenders.
Cuts their Scope 3.1 and 3.4 with no redesign and no logistics change
- Receives a part with a lower declared PCF — drops straight into their GHG inventory and SBTi roadmap.
- Credible brand story: beverage-carton waste → durable product, with geographic origin and batch photos.
- Lowers regulatory risk (PPWR, indirect CBAM, EU Taxonomy) and exposure to internal carbon pricing.
- Commercial argument toward their own customer: physical proof of circularity, not greenwashing.
Worked example — 22 kg pallet
- Virgin HDPE pallet
- ≈ 35 kg CO₂e / unit
- Same pallet in PolyAl
- ≈ 7 kg CO₂e / unit
- Saving per pallet
- −28 kg CO₂e (−80%)
- Fleet of 10,000 pallets/yr
- −280 t CO₂e Scope 3 avoided
Indicative figures based on sector emission factors (virgin HDPE ~1.9 kg CO₂e/kg vs PolyAl ~0.3 kg CO₂e/kg). PCF available under NDA.
Sales kit, ready to use
- Per-batch PCF + EPD sheet to attach to commercial offers.
- PolyAl vs virgin HDPE Scope 3 comparison (co-brandable PDF).
- Impact calculator your sales team can demo in a customer meeting.
- Traceability certificate (beverage-carton origin → pellet → your part).
Your circular impact, in numbers
Estimate the waste you divert and the CO₂ you save by switching to PolyAl pellets.
FAQ — sustainability
How much CO₂ does PolyAl save vs virgin HDPE?
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Each tonne of PolyAl pellets avoids approximately 1.6 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent compared to virgin HDPE, based on the embedded emissions of fossil-based polyethylene production.
Why are beverage cartons so hard to recycle?
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Beverage cartons combine paperboard, polyethylene and aluminium in laminated layers. Conventional plastic recyclers can't process them. PolyAl recovers the polymer + aluminium fraction (PolyAl) into a usable industrial pellet.
How does PolyAl support EU PPWR compliance?
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The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) requires minimum recycled content in plastic packaging by 2030. PolyAl provides ISCC PLUS certified post-consumer recycled content traceable to beverage cartons.
Is PolyAl recyclable at end of life?
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Yes. PolyAl follows the same recycling stream as polyethylene-based composites and can be reground and reprocessed into new pellets at end of life.
Where do the cartons come from?
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From municipal selective collection in Europe, sorted at recycling plants. Each batch is traceable back to its sorting facility.