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PullApart is a UK-based kerbside packaging recycling classification system, invented by Michael Butler of Dawlish, England, in 2005. It combines environmental and consumer packaging surveys, to provide customers with an empirical measurement of the ease with which specific types of packaging may be recycled locally.
Methodology
As PullApart is applied to existing local authority-installed recycling bin refuse collection systems, its scoring scheme is dependent on individual local authorities’ own packaging disassembly practices[1]. Sample packaging is disassembled, according to the Local Authority’s process, rearranged and its components graded for ease of recycling. The raw information from this exercise is also made available to the public.
A final, consumer-oriented "PAC" (PullApart Code) score is achieved by measuring what proportion of a product's components are recyclable from the kerbside. The PAC score is represented by 13 stages of ‘traffic light’ grading.
 | This is a simplified mathematical representation of PullApart's kerbside scoring system. Determining local recyclability only, by weight: |
Broader aims
PullApart’s stated aim is to encourage manufactures, retailers and producers to give greater weight to ease of recycling in their package designs. According to PullApart’s current Teignbridge (2010), survey of over 2100 products (constantly updated), 3% are ideally suited for kerbside recycling and a further 30% are good, with the rest failing[2]. The sample area, Teignbridge, and therefore Teignbridge District Council, has a current recycling rate of 57% (2008/2009)[3], (by weight).
Awards for the scheme
PullApart is considered by the Green Apple Awards [4] to be of “Environmental Best Practice”.
References
- ^ Teignbridge refuse collection systems.
- ^ PullApart's Teignbridge survey: 2010
- ^ Teignbridge District Council's recycling rate: 2008/2009 - 57%
- ^ Green Apple Awards The Green Organisation