Encina earns ISCC Plus designation

Encina Development Group, a producer of circular chemicals based in The Woodlands, Texas, has achieved the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) Plus designation for its circular monomers converted from postconsumer and scrap plastic.

ISCC Plus is an internationally recognized third-party sustainability certification system that evaluates all the sustainable raw materials, circular materials, biological materials and renewable energy by means of an audit to determine compliance with environmental sustainability requirements. According to a news release from Encina, the ISCC Plus designation credibly validates sustainability characteristics, such as the percentage of recycled content, that a company claims.

Encina says it uses a proprietary advanced recycling technology that works at the molecular level. Through the technology, polymer chains are split apart and converted back to their original chemical building blocks that can be reused to make new products. The company adds that it plans to construct several facilities in the United States as well as Asia and South America, with each facility expected to process about 450,000 tons of postconsumer and scrap plastic material each year.

“Achieving ISCC Plus certification is a critical milestone and validator of our work to catalyze the move from linear to circular manufacturing systems, with the long-term vision of getting to a world where nothing is wasted,” says Sheida Sahandy, chief sustainability officer at Encina. “It allows Encina to provide our global customers with certified products to meet their sustainability goals. Our customers are manufacturers who can drop these products seamlessly into their existing manufacturing processes to produce products with recycled content. This allows them to be responsive to growing consumer expectations of sustainability and transparency when it comes to their purchases.”