Approval for recycling companies

Are you a recovery or recycling company? Get approved

Thanks to the approval, we verify that the companies to which we award the recovered materials, whose sale is managed by us, meet certain technical, environmental and administrative criteria, which we consider to be essential.

In addition, the approval process ensures the companies interested in receiving the materials offers all guarantees for their correct treatment.

The approval is a certification process, which is outsourced and audited under ISO 9001 and 14001 standards.

Currently, the certification service is provided by an independent consultancy. ECOEMBES will soon expand the number of independent consultancies - with a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 5 - that can provide the recycler certification service for ECOEMBES through a public procurement process.

Are you an independent consultant interested in providing homologation services? This might interest you:

Contracting of Homologation Services for Recoverers/Recyclers 

(JULY 2025 - JUNE 2028)

The purpose of this bidding process is to contract a minimum of 2 and up to a maximum of 5 specialized companies to provide homologation services to Recoverers/Recyclers during the period from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028.

 

Bids will be submitted exclusively electronically, through the Ecoembes Electronic Bidding Portal, which you can access via the following link

 

To do this, bidding companies must first register on the Platform, where they can also consult the technical requirements for the equipment and browser needed to submit the bid, as well as a User Manual, which will guide you through the steps to follow during the process and will contain relevant information for submitting bids.

 

Documentation:

Start date for submission of bids:

  • April 22, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. (GMT +1)

Deadline for submission of bids:

  • May 9, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. (GMT +1)

Type of materials

The materials recovered to which the approved recovery and recycling companies may gain access are governed by a set of quality conditions and standards, compiled in the Technical Specifications for recovered materials (TSRM)

 

These materials are divided into two large groups:

Plastic materials

  1. PET

  2. PEAD

  3. FILM

  4. Mixed plastic (Current TSRM)

  5. Mixed plastic (Future TSRM)

  6. Polypropylene + Polystyrene (PP+PS)

  7. Polypropylene (PP)

Other materials

  1. Steel

  2. Aluminium

  3. Paper and cardboard

  4. Drinks cardboard

Approval procedures

The requirements included in the approval procedure are based on the material.

Download all the information according to type of material you are interested in.

Plastic materials                                                    

Other materials

Removing an approval

Recovery and recycling companies that do not meet the conditions set may lose their approval.

  1. Termination of the contracts signed.

  2. May imply impossibility to being approved again within two years.

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