We do not charge for certification. You simply need to have an accredited 3rd party auditor verify your plastic footprint and offset at least that amount for the past year, plus 2 years moving forward, in order to be certified by PCX.

The plastic crisis is a global problem that needs a global solution. Plastic waste touches nearly every corner of the world but developing countries like the Philippines and Indonesia have become the “world’s dumping ground” and thus lie at the epicenter of the problem. If we want to get serious about ending the crisis, we need everyone on board, and we empower companies from anywhere around the globe to do just that by providing geographically agnostic offsetting solutions.

Our goal is to build a rigorous, ethical, environmentally-sound marketplace that enables companies to offset plastic waste from anywhere around the world. PCX is hard at work seeking out the best partners globally to help us make plastic offsets available from multiple locations.

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A product may refer to a single SKU or multiple SKUs which do not complete the whole product line. A brand covers all the products within the portfolio of the company’s trademark.

We can support you wherever you are in your sustainability journey. Currently we offer the following Certifications: Net Zero Plastic Waste Product. Offset your plastic footprint for all products under a single product category. Net Zero Plastic Waste Brand. Offset your plastic footprint for all products of all categories under a specific brand. Net Zero Plastic Waste Company. Offset your plastic footprint for all parts of your company’s operations, including the plastic inputs to products and services, logistics, advertising, promotion and selling, as well as general administrative activities of a company.

Celebrate! Show the world you’ve joined a movement committed to ending the plastic waste crisis by displaying your new Net Zero Plastic Waste (previously Plastic Neutral) Badge on products and marketing channels! This will inspire other companies to take bold action to streamline their plastic usage and offset whatever is left so that we ensure a healthier planet.

Offsetting is not an excuse to pollute. We recommend all organizations find a solution set that best suits their operations which includes a combination of reducing plastic wherever they can in their supply chains, reusing and recycling whenever possible, and only that which is left as essential plastic should be offset so that we can ensure it doesn't wind up in nature.

To become Net Zero Plastic Waste (previously Plastic Neutral) Certified you must purchase plastic credits equivalent to your annual plastic footprint for the previous year, and commit to offsetting an additional 2 years minimum with PCX.

If you have an annual footprint of more than 100MT you must have your plastic footprint audited by a third party - and we can help you with that. If your footprint falls below 100MT, you simply need to complete the plastic footprint calculator and sign an attestation to submit your application.

Download our full Plastic Footprint Calculator and we can help you assess your company's plastic footprint. It's the first step to going Plastic Neutral.

There isn’t, though it certainly will help if your company has been operating for at least a year.

You may still have a plastic footprint. All the plastic you use in your marketing, logistics, advertising, and administrative activities count towards your plastic footprint. Depending on the level of certification you choose, you’ll need to offset these to become Net Zero Plastic Waste (previously Plastic Neutral) Certified.

Plastic responsibility is achieved when the plastic footprint of a brand is reduced to zero for a defined period. It means having a balance between producing plastic and cleaning it up from the environment or at the source.

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All plastic credits issued by PCX have undergone reputable third-party verification. This means we ensure that post-consumer plastic is physically diverted away from nature through our vetted aggregators and processors. We measure our impact and success versus the achievement of United Nations Sustainability Goals and only recognize offsets that are in compliance with our Plastic Pollution Reduction Standard

Cutting out plastic completely is not as easy as people would like to think. The lightweight, durable material continues to make the modern world possible and many things we take for granted depend on it. Food, for instance, has been made safer and less cumbersome to transport, reducing spoilage and food cost—therefore alleviating hunger and climate change. Modern medicine has also greatly benefited from disposable plastic (look no further than the COVID pandemic to see proof of that). What has made plastic the problem it is today is that we never figured out what to do with it once we are done using it—or assigned that responsibility clearly. We need to work hard to reduce wherever we can the use of non-essential plastic, recycle that which is essential, and innovate to find better alternatives to plastic, not only because of the waste it produces but also because it increases the extraction of fossil fuels which heats our planet.

Plastic credits allocate funding into projects that help solve the plastic pollution crisis. This includes investing in: operations that physically divert plastic waste away from nature; plastic waste collection infrastructure to assist underserved communities; information and education campaigns to drive behavior change and encourage the adoption of a circular economy mindset; and crucially, additional clean-up operations to help chip away at decades’ worth of plastic accumulation beyond a company’s own footprint.

PCX generates plastic offsets by working with partners for the aggregation, transport, treatment, processing and disposal of plastic waste, so that plastic waste is diverted away from nature and fed back into the circular economy.

Plastic offsetting is the act of compensating for generating plastic by cleaning up plastic waste so that it doesn’t pollute the environment.

They are two sides of the same coin. A plastic credit is a verified plastic offset and each one is equivalent to 1 tonne of plastic waste. When plastic credits are used by companies to balance out their footprints, it’s called offsetting.

You can learn more about the crisis here: https://www.unep.org/interactive/beat-plastic-pollution/

Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX) recognizes the decades-long global challenge of plastic pollution, which is the harmful accumulation of plastic waste in the environment. In 2015, researchers estimated that more than 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic had been produced, with an additional 300 million tonnes being added each year, 79% of which is mismanaged. PCX has seen firsthand how this has created problems for the environment, wildlife, and human populations. The Ellen MacArthur foundation warned that there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050, unless we commit to meaningful change.