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 All of our can liner’s meet the mandated requirement by the
State Of California Integrated Waste Management, Recycled Plastic Post Consumer Material (RPPCM).
HDPE can liners consist of 15% recycled and 85% virgin material.
LDPE can liners consist of 15% post consumer, 35% recycled,
and 50% virgin material.
What is the difference between recycled-content and post-consumer recycled content?
A recycled-content product is an item that contains recovered materials. Recovered materials are wastes that have been diverted from conventional disposal such as landfills for another use. Recovered materials include both pre-consumer and post-consumer wastes.
Pre-consumer (virgin) materials are generated by manufacturers and processors, and may consist of scrap, trimmings and other by-products that were never used in the consumer market.
Post-consumer material is an end product that has completed its life cycle as a consumer item and would otherwise have been disposed of as a solid waste. Post-consumer materials include recyclables collected in commercial and residential recycling programs, such as office paper, cardboard, aluminum cans, plastics and metals.
Recycled-content products may contain some pre-consumer waste, some post-consumer waste or both. A product does not have to contain 100 percent recovered materials to be considered “recycled,” but clearly the higher the percentage of recycled content, the greater the amount of waste that is diverted from disposal. Always look at the level of post-consumer recycled content in a product.
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