PureCycle Earns GreenCircle's Recycled Content Certification
- Achieved important GreenCircle Recycled Content Certification, validating sustainability claims
- Certification meets customer requirements and should support commercial growth
- Recognition from industry-leading certification body endorsed by Association of Plastic Recyclers
- Successfully passed comprehensive ISO 17065 compliant audit process
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PureCycle's GreenCircle certification validates their recycled content claims, potentially boosting commercial opportunities with sustainability-focused customers.
PureCycle has secured a significant validation milestone with GreenCircle's Recycled Content Certification for their PureFive™ polypropylene resin and co-products. This isn't merely a symbolic achievement - it represents third-party verification through a rigorous, ISO 17065 compliant auditing process that confirms the percentage of post-consumer recycled content in their materials.
The certification's strategic value lies in its market recognition. GreenCircle is endorsed by the Association of Plastic Recyclers and described as "a critical requirement for many procurement organizations." This creates a clear commercial pathway, as major companies increasingly require suppliers to provide verified sustainability credentials before making purchasing decisions.
The validation process included physical audits of PureCycle's Ironton Facility and compounding operations, indicating a comprehensive evaluation of their actual production capabilities rather than just theoretical claims. This thoroughly vets PureCycle's proprietary dissolution recycling technology, which is licensed from Procter & Gamble.
This certification addresses a critical market challenge - the verification gap in recycled materials. With growing regulatory pressure and corporate sustainability commitments driving demand for authenticated recycled content, PureCycle is now positioned to capitalize on this with independently verified products. The company's commitment to annual recertification for multiple grades of resin demonstrates a long-term approach to maintaining this competitive advantage in the circular economy space.
ORLANDO, FL / ACCESS Newswire / June 20, 2025 / PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:PCT) announced today it has achieved GreenCircle Certified's Recycled Content Certification for multiple grades of PureFive™ polypropylene resin and co-products. This certification confirms PureCycle's sustainability claims to customers regarding the percentage of post-consumer recycled content in those materials.
GreenCircle Certified, LLC (GreenCircle) is a third-party certification company that conducts extensive audits of organizations to verify the accuracy of sustainability claims. GreenCircle is an industry-leading organization endorsed by the Association of Plastic Recyclers and their certification is a critical requirement for many procurement organizations.
"At GreenCircle Certified, we are proud to recognize PureCycle for achieving the Recycled Content Certification for their resin," said Sara Risley, Certification Officer at GreenCircle Certified. "This certification underscores their commitment to sustainability and their efforts in advancing circular economy solutions within the plastics industry."
The multi-step certification process is ISO 17065 compliant and ensures that recycled content claims are accurate, truthful, and consistent.The process included visits by GreenCircle to PureCycle's Ironton Facility and the Company's compounding operations.
PureCycle CEO Dustin Olson said, "This comprehensive process and certification is another confirmation of PureCycle's ability to recycle challenging waste streams and transform them into high-quality recycled products. As the demand for sustainability increases, many customers require this type of certification, so this should support our commercial growth." Olson added, "We are firmly committed to offering a sustainable alternative to virgin polypropylene resin. GreenCircle's Recycled Content Certification serves as proof of our efforts."
PureCycle plans to continue working with GreenCircle to achieve annual certifications for multiple grades of PureFive™ resin.
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Christian Bruey
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Eric DeNatale
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About PureCycle Technologies
PureCycle Technologies LLC., a subsidiary of PureCycle Technologies, Inc., holds a global license for the only patented dissolution recycling technology, developed by The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), that is designed to transform polypropylene plastic waste (designated as #5 plastic) into a continuously renewable resource. The unique purification process removes color, odor, and other impurities from #5 plastic waste resulting in our PureFive™ resin that can be recycled and reused multiple times, changing our relationship with plastic. www.purecycle.com
About GreenCircle Certified, LLC
GreenCircle Certified was established in 2009 after our founders encountered many unsubstantiated claims in the marketplace. GreenCircle is an internationally recognized third-party certification entity whose thorough evaluation process provides independent verification that sustainability claims related to an organization's products and operations are honest, valid, and verified. GreenCircle is ISO 17065 compliant, following industry requirements for bodies certifying products, processes, and services. GreenCircle is recognized by the U.S. Federal Government as a recommended Ecolabel for all federal purchasing, by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), and the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) as a valid third-party certification entity. In today's discerning market, third-party certification is a valuable asset in establishing brand integrity and developing consumer confidence. For more information visit: www.GreenCircleCertified.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the expected timing of the closing of the proposed offering of preferred stock, thee continued execution of PureCycle's business plan; the expected growth in the number of PureCycle's facilities, including the timing of such growth and the expected production capacities of PureCycle's future facilities; the expected scale, efficiency and financial gains from each new facility, and the expected benefits from certain future facilities. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or PureCycle's future financial or operating performance and may refer to projections and forecasts. Forward-looking statements are often identified by future or conditional words such as "plan," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "outlook," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "continue," "could," "may," "might," "possible," "potential," "predict," "should," "would" and other similar words and expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions), but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.
The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of PureCycle's management and are inherently subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak only as of the date of this press release. There can be no assurance that future developments will be those that have been anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in each of PureCycle's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, and those discussed and identified in other public filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission by PureCycle and the following: PCT's ability to complete the proposed offering of preferred stock on the anticipated timing or at all PCT's ability to obtain funding for its operations and future growth and to continue as a going concern; PCT's ability to meet, and to continue to meet, applicable regulatory requirements for the use of PCT's PureFive™ resin in food grade applications (including in the United States, Europe, Asia and other future international locations); PCT's ability to comply on an ongoing basis with the numerous regulatory requirements applicable to the PureFive™ resin and PCT's facilities (including in the United States, Europe, Asia and other future international locations); expectations and changes regarding PCT's strategies and future financial performance, including its future business plans, expansion plans or objectives, prospective performance and opportunities and competitors, revenues, products and services, pricing, operating expenses, market trends, liquidity, cash flows and uses of cash, capital expenditures, and PCT's ability to invest in growth initiatives which could be impacted by significant changes to tariffs on foreign imports into the United States; the ability of PCT's first commercial-scale recycling facility in Lawrence County, Ohio (the "Ironton Facility") to be appropriately certified by Leidos, following certain performance and other tests, and commence full-scale commercial operations in a timely and cost-effective manner or at all; PCT's ability to meet, and to continue to meet, the requirements imposed upon it and its subsidiaries by the funding for its operations, including the funding for the Ironton Facility; PCT's ability to minimize or eliminate the many hazards and operational risks at its manufacturing facilities that can result in potential injury to individuals, disrupt its business (including interruptions or disruptions in operations at its facilities), and subject PCT to liability and increased costs; PCT's ability to complete the necessary funding with respect to, and complete the construction of, (i) its first U.S. multi-line facility, located in Augusta, Georgia, and (ii) its first commercial-scale European plant located in Antwerp, Belgium, in a timely and cost-effective manner; PCT's ability to procure, sort and process polypropylene plastic waste at its planned plastic waste prep facilities; PCT's ability to maintain exclusivity under the Procter & Gamble Company license; the implementation, market acceptance and success of PCT's business model and growth strategy; the success or profitability of PCT's offtake arrangements; the ability to source feedstock with a high polypropylene content at a reasonable cost; PCT's future capital requirements and sources and uses of cash; developments and projections relating to PCT's competitors and industry; the outcome of any legal or regulatory proceedings to which PCT is, or may become, a party including the securities class action and putative class action cases; geopolitical risk and changes in applicable laws or regulations; the possibility that PCT may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors, including interest rates, availability of capital, economic cycles, and other macro-economic impacts; turnover in employees and increases in employee-related costs; changes in the prices and availability of labor (including labor shortages), transportation and materials, including inflation, supply chain conditions and its related impact on energy and raw materials, and PCT's ability to obtain them in a timely and cost-effective manner; any business disruptions due to political or economic instability, pandemics, armed hostilities (including the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East); the potential impact of climate change on PCT, including physical and transition risks, higher regulatory and compliance costs, reputational risks, and availability of capital on attractive terms; and operational risk.
PCT undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made in this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions made prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events.
SOURCE: PureCycle Technologies
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