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This guide covers typical supply chains encountered at the beginning of the OBP Sourcing, at its collection or close to the collection. At this stage of the supply chain a
multitude of actors, often unformal, play a key role. The OBP Recycling Subprogram has been conceived to cover the collection step ethically and inclusively while
respecting the quality and traceability required.

This guide does not cover supply chain models encountered further down the production chain as they are more straight forward with usually a formal certified buyer and a
formal certified seller.

Summary definitions used in this guide (please refer to the corresponding standard for the complete definitions):

Collection Organization: Organization certified to the OBP Collection Organization Standard

Recycling Organization: Organization certified to the OBP Recycling Organization Standard
Small Collector : Legal entity purchasing OBP from Independent Collectors and selling maximum 400 Metric Ton/year to a Collection Organization within a
Supplier Group.
Independent Collector : Individual or very small group collecting waste and selling maximum 200Kg per day to a Small Collector or Collection Organization.
Supplier Group : Certification option for a Collection Organization to include a group of Small Collectors within its scope under its control and responsibility.
Multisite: Certification options for organization having multiple sites (in a country or various countries) under the same quality management system.

Reference documents:

OBP Collection Organization Standard OBP-COL-STD

OBP Recycling Organization Standard OBP-REC-STD
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The OBP Recycling Subprogram

covers 2 types of organizations A Recycling Organization must purchase its OBP
from a certified Collection Organization or another
certified Recycling Organization (depending on its
Collection Recycling position in the value chain).
Organization Organization
Recycling Recycling
Companies doing the Organization Organization
Companies or any type of
Recycling of OBP until
organization that is doing OR
the collection of OBP final product (that
includes traders and also Collection Recycling
companies using Organization Organization
packaging for example)

If at the beginning of a specific supply chain there is no certified Collection Organization to supply certified
OBP, the Recycling Organization may also act as a Collection Organization and collect or purchase OBP as shown in
the following pages. In that case the same organization is issued two scope certificates, one as Collection
Organization and one as Recycling Organization.

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Case Description:
A Collection Organization may collect directly or buy to street pickers (Independent Collectors) or buy to aggregators (Small Collectors). When buying to Small
Collectors a Supplier Group is created. A Collection Organization can combine case A and B.

Scenario A:
The Collection Organization is collecting itself the material it needs Scenario B:
and/or buys it directly to waste pickers (Independent Collectors-IC). The Collection Organization is buying plastic waste directly from
small waste shops/aggregators (Small Collectors) through a Supplier
Group.

Collection Collection
Organization Organization Supplier
Group

Own IC Small Small

and/or IC
collectors IC Collector Collector

Own IC Own IC
and/or IC and/or IC
collectors IC collectors IC
Note: Collection and purchase must be done respecting the geographical
requirement of the OBP Category chosen (Potential OBP, Waterways or Shoreline
OBP, plus the other requirements of the standard. Please refer to the OBP
Collection std for details
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Collection Limitation
Only one level of aggregation is permitted by the Standard to ensure
Organization audits are done as close as possible to the real collection of OBP in
the field.

Aggregator Aggregator
A Collection Organization can not buy from
Small Small Small Small Aggregators buying themselves to other
Collector Collector Collector Collector
aggregators (Small Collectors).
Own IC Own IC Own IC Own IC
collectors
and/or IC
IC collectors
and/or IC
IC collectors
and/or IC
IC collectors
and/or IC
IC In this case the 2nd level Aggregators must
certify themselves to the Collection
Organization std and become Collection
Organizations.

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WHEN TO APPLY FOR MULTISITE CERTIFICATION?
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Example 1: Example 2:
The organization is collecting and processing OBP in different sites. The organization is trading OBP and processing it through multiple
entities.

Collection Recycling
Organization HQ Organization HQ

Example B:
OBP In this example,
OBP Sorting OBP OBP OBP Selling OBP
Purchase Regional HQ purchasing purchasing entity in Recycling
Facility
facility entity in entity in country C facility
country A country B

OBP
Purchase
facility

When an organization has several facilities involved with OBP and all facilities use the same quality management system a Multisite certification can
be done instead of certifying each site individually.

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