Plastic Recycling

Seize the Opportunity

Plastic Recycling represents one of the most exciting market opportunities in the emerging global Circular Economy.

According to Gartner, the global plastic recycling market is projected to grow from an estimated $ 85 billion in 2020 to $ 110 billion by 2025.

The global plastic recycling market is driven by a rising inclination towards recycled plastics over virgin plastics because of the high pollution caused by the plastics when disposed of in oceans or other water bodies.

The growth of this nascent recycling industry is also being supported by very positive regulatory and consumer trends. For example, in Europe new regulations on Extended Producer Responsibility, deposit-refund schemes, legislative mandatory single-stream collection, and a desire among consumer packaging companies to use recycled plastic rather than virgin material.

However, plastic is not a single material but a collective name for many different kinds of plastics consisting of a variety of polymers (e.g. PET, LDPE, PP, PE) and in many cases, these polymers are mixed in single plastic material.

The challenge is to create maximum value for end-users of the various form of recycled plastics by creating a consistent and high-quality standard of plastic material while at the same time ensuring that your recycling operations are highly efficient.

Digitalizing your operations

The fact that plastics recycling is an emerging sector provides companies with the opportunity to adopt new generation solutions like AMCS Platform.

Managing a plastic recycling enterprise has become increasingly complex and competitive in a global economy. Each process in the value chain hinges on another – purchasing, quality monitoring, processing, inventory management, outbound logistics, invoicing so it is essential to have an integrated solution such as the AMCS Platform.

The AMCS Platform allows you to digitalize your operations by eliminating paper and manual processes across your enterprise and by providing customers and suppliers alike with self-service options to engage with you.

For example, all paper forms such as job tickets, weighbridge tickets, stock-taking forms, invoices, reports can be digitalized and automatically published on the Platform portals or automatically sent via email to your customers and suppliers.

All of your key recycling processes (e.g. material inspection, processing, outbound sales) can be supported by the best in practice workflows provided by the AMCS Platform so your operational processes can be integrated and standardized across your operations across multiple locations and geographies.

The AMCS Platform uses advanced mobile workforce applications, optimization algorithms, and portal technology to deliver this digitalization.

This gives you unprecedented control and visibility over your operations while maximizing your operational efficiency and service to your customers.

It is all about the plastic quality

End-users of recycled plastic demand strict compliance with quality standards given that the material is re-used in highly regulated industries such as food production, consumer electronics, and the automotive industry.

Recycled plastic needs to approximate to the greatest extent possible commodity grade plastic to attract the highest sales price.

This means that a plastic recycler needs an ERP solution that can support the strict monitoring and recording of the quality of the plastic as it moves through your value chain from inbound receipt and inspection, through production, inventory management, and then on to onward sales

AMCS Platform provides a plastic recycler with the tools to inspect loads, record granular details ( photographs, weights, composition, and colour, etc.) at all stages of the recycling process so there is clear visibility on the quality of each load as well as the cost build-up and resulting margin.

For example, our sophisticated mobile grading app means that your team can accurately inspect and grade each load, so you are paying only for the actual grade material that you expected and contracted for.

Controlling your Logistics Costs

Given that plastics represent a low-density material, the management of both inbound and outbound logistics is critical as transport costs can represent a high percentage of overall costs.

The AMCS Platform recognizes this challenge and provides tools to manage, plan and optimize all aspects of the logistics, ensuring that you can maximise your payloads to reduce your transport costs.

It offers best-in-class in bound and outbound transport planning and optimization support to drastically reduce your logistic costs.

For instance, users of AMCS Intelligent Optimisation, have saved up to 75% in administration planning time while reducing the number of trucks they put on the road by up to 15%. Other technologies can give you just as impressive results.

Getting ahead with AMCS solutions

You need to choose a solution like AMCS Platform which is designed for the recycling sector that offers sector-specific functionality that is not available in generic ERP offerings.

We enable rapid business transformation, helping more than 600 recyclers worldwide adapt to new market conditions. Our technologies are designed to deliver operational efficiencies and grow to protect your margin in the recycling of plastics:

• Detailed recording of incoming loads by polymer type (), state, color, etc.
• Rigorous grading and quality sampling of incoming plastic feedstock
• Flexible and comprehensive contract management to manage charges, rebates, and claims
• Comprehensive stock management (e.g. raw material, work in progress, and finished goods)
• Capture and report of production costs (e.g. shredding, handling, baling, etc.)
• Management of outbound loads (e.g. photographs of containers & seals, shipping, exports, etc.)
• Demand Planning
• Business Analytics

We’re also best placed to help make your recycling efforts more efficient for other streams such as metal, fiber, wood, and textiles