About Us

For the first time, cyclos audited mass flow verifications of the Grüner Punkt - Duales System Deutschland for packaging in various federal states and carried out the first sorting analyses in the field of packaging disposal.

Between 1996 and 1999, cyclos examined the state of the disposal items from the “yellow bags” and the “yellow bins” for all 16 federal states throughout Germany.

The first employees were sworn in as publicly appointed and sworn experts for packaging disposal by the responsible Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

cyclos played a major role in developing strategies for the establishment and implementation of the mandatory deposit for disposable beverage packaging and, as an expert office, became a certification body for the Deutsche Pfandsystem GmbH.

By 2003 cyclos already had 14 employees.

Since 2004, cyclos experts have been certifying plastics recycling plants in Germany per the requirements of the former Packaging Regulation and the current German Packaging Act.

WWhen the ElektroG came into force, the first employees were sworn in as the first experts for this area of appointment in Germany.

With the introduction of the statutory obligation for manufacturers to submit an annual letter of representation, the business area "Classification and Weighing of Packaging" was established..

In 2008, cyclos was one of the first companies to offer mandatory verification of the declaration of completeness of packaging for manufacturers. In 2018, it played a key role in the quality assurance of the test guidelines for declaration of completeness of the Central Packaging Register.

By its 15th anniversary, cyclos already has 23 employees.

The certification business unit is expanded to include the certification of plastic products made from recyclates under the requirements of the German Blue Angel.

In addition to Agnes Bünemann, Sabine Bartnik and Ernst Schwanhold became managing partners of cyclos GmbH from mid-2012.

Since 2012, cyclos GmbH experts have also been certifying plastics recycling plants in accordance with the EuCertPlast certification scheme. Cyclos played a major role in developing this EuCertPlast certification scheme.

The cyclos experts are authorised by the responsible appointed body to carry out audits and certifications in the field of battery disposal at companies.

The shareholders of cyclos GmbH, and HTP GmbH, found the Institute cyclos-HTP GmbH as a company for the classification, assessment and testing of the recyclability of packaging and goods as well as research and development in this field.

Our many years of experience in packaging disposal and producer responsibility is applied to issues in various non-European countries and support the development of strategies and concepts for manging packaging waste.

First studies and projects for the Dutch packaging disposal system. In addition to sorting and quality analyses, the new tasks also include audits and the development of concepts.

cyclos takes over the organisational and technical direction for the Gemeinschaft für textile Zukunft (Community for the Future of Textiles). The main topics are the high-quality collection, recycling, financing and future organisation of used textiles.

The responsible appointed body legitimises the cyclos experts to audit and certificate services such as the separate collection of commercial waste at companies.

Silvia Tholen and Dr.-Ing. Stephan Löhle, who worked for the company for many years, became managing partners alongside Sabine Bartnik and Agnes Bünemann.

By its 25th anniversary, cyclos had 55 permanent employees and additional support staff in various business units.

To promote the use of recyclates in packaging, we have launched our label demonstrating the ratio of recyclates from the post-consumer sector for packaging.