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2024

Olga Stadnik assesses the potential of recycled products for Vedomosti

"Vedomosti published an article on incentives for the development of the market of recycled products in Russia. Olga Stadnik, head of the EcoTechLab research center, gave her comments along with Denis Butsayev, general director of REO PPK, and Alexander Svidovsky, general director of the EcoLine-Vtorplast plant.
Olga described:

  • In what spheres secondary raw materials are being actively used now;
  • Why it is difficult to estimate to what extent and how many manufacturers use recycled materials;
"Probably the number is in the hundreds. Many do not disclose their use of recycled materials for a variety of reasons. However, with the new recyclable materials reporting form (1-BC), it will be possible to accurately measure the size of the market as early as 2024.
  • How geopolitical events have influenced the lack of interest in using recycled materials;
  • How much of a difference the price of products made with recycled materials makes to the end user;
  • Why it is important to increase state and local government purchases of recycled content products.
This is especially true for infrastructure facilities, small architectural forms for urban spaces, such as benches made of recycled plastic. Such benches should be equipped with signs with information that the product is made of recycled plastic, so that people could visually verify that these products are not inferior in quality and properties to primary analogues.
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