GB: Progress in flexible packaging recyclability project REFLEX
Within the REFLEX project significant progress has been made in trialling and developing new designs aimed at greatly improving the recyclability of flexible packaging.
Multi-layer packaging structures that currently use incompatible polymers have been redesigned using polymers which can potentially be recycled together. Another success includes optimisation of NIR (Near Infra-red) sorting technologies to detect and separate mixed polyolefin (PP and PE) packaging, such as sweet wrappers, crisp packets and bread bags. This also opens up interesting new options for the types of recycled polymers that could subsequently be made from it (News Release Axion Consulting, 3 July 2015).
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