Requirements for collection and pre-processing
Article 6
1. Waste management operators that participate in the supply chain of plastic input shall ensure that the collected plastic waste meets the following requirements: (a) the plastic waste originates only from municipal waste, or from food retail or other food businesses if it was only intended and used for contact with food, including waste discarded from a recycling scheme in accordance with Article 9(6); (b) the plastic waste originates only from plastic materials and articles manufactured in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 or recycled plastic materials and articles manufactured in accordance with this Regulation; (c) the plastic waste is subject to separate collection; (d) the presence of plastic materials and articles that are different from the plastic for which the decontamination process is intended, including caps, labels and adhesives, other materials and substances, and remaining food is reduced to a level specified in the requirements for the plastic input provided by the recycler and which shall not compromise the achieved level of decontamination. 2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, point (c), the plastic waste shall be considered as collected separately when one of the following conditions is fulfilled: (a) it consists only of plastic materials and articles meeting the requirements of paragraph 1, points (a) and (b), and which have been collected separately for recycling from any other waste; (b) it is collected together with other packaging waste fractions of municipal waste or with other non-packaging plastic, metal, paper or glass fractions of municipal waste collected separately from residual waste for recycling, and the following requirements are met: (i) the collection system collects only non-hazardous waste; (ii) the collection of waste and the subsequent sorting are designed and carried out to minimise contamination of collected plastic waste from any plastic waste not meeting the requirements of paragraph 1, points (a) and (b), or other waste; 3. The plastic waste shall be controlled throughout collection and pre-processing by means of quality assurance systems. The quality assurance systems shall: (a) ensure the conditions and requirements set out in paragraph 1 and 2 are met; (b) ensure traceability of each batch up to the point of the first sorting of collected plastic waste; and, (c) be certified by an independent third party. Articles 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2023/2006 as well as point B of the Annex to that Regulation shall apply mutatis mutandis as regards good manufacturing practice, quality control and assurance systems and the relevant documentation.