Removing labels from PET bottles before recycling is a crucial step to ensure recycled PET’s suitability

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Circular Economy

April 2022

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Removing labels from PET bottles before recycling is a crucial step to ensure recycled PET’s suitability. This is because discoloured or unclean rPET cannot be repurposed into high-quality, clear plastic beverage bottles.

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Recycling trial on pressure-sensitive labels

Recycling trial on pressure-sensitive labels

MCC recently teamed up with PETCO, Oasis Water and PET recycler, Extrupet to conduct a recycling trial on MCC’s range of pressure-sensitive labels. MCC’s pressure sensitive "recycLABEL" was tested on a PET bottle for the effective recycling of a clear and light blue PET bottle back to “PhoenixPET®” Extrupet’s food grade rPET. More...

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Replacing single-use plastics

Replacing single-use plastics

PulPac’s fibre-forming technology is designed for the circular economy and uses affordable, globally available, renewable cellulose fibres to produce high-performance, fibre-based packaging and single-use products with highly competitive unit economics. More...

Mattel taps certified renewable polymers

Mattel taps certified renewable polymers

SABIC announced a collaboration with Mattel, a leading global toy company, to incorporate certified renewable polymers from SABIC’s TRUCIRCLETM program across Mattel’s products. More...

Coperion Plastics Recycling Systems

Coperion Plastics Recycling Systems

Excellent mixing behavior and high devolatilization performance: The ZSK twin screw extruder is the ideal system to produce high-quality recyclates. Benefit from our comprehensive know-how and technology solutions for various plastics recycling processes.

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Brückner Sustainability TV now out

Brückner Sustainability TV now out

What can the solutions of the future look like? Brückner Maschinenbau wants to provide answers and food for thought. That is why the brand-new series “Sustainability TV” was recently launched. More...

ECO profile of Luminy ® PLA now available

ECO profile of Luminy ® PLA now available

To support product designers TotalEnergies Corbion has enabled Sphera’s Product Sustainability (formerly GaBi) database users to access the Luminy® PLA ecological product profile. The ECO profile allows designers to quantify the environmental impact PLA in product design and production choosing Luminy® PLA. More...

POLYSTAR - Extrusion Made Simple

Blown Film Extruders from single layer to multi-layered co-extrusion lines, we design our machines to be simple and focus on what’s most important for plastic producers who are looking for an easy and stable operation. Read more...

Sugar-based plastics research shows promises

Sugar-based plastics research shows promises

Researchers at the University of Birmingham, U.K. and Duke University, U.S., have described the exceptional strength and toughness of novel polymers made from sugars, and the chemistry underpinning their characteristics, in a study published in Angew Chemie. More...

Matte white in-mould labelling film

Matte white in-mould labelling film

Innovia Films is launching RayoForm™ EUP60, a white BOPP film for in-mould labelling (IML). Produced in Europe at one of our state-of-the art production facilities, EUP60 is a very high opacity, high yield product, having a density as low as 0.55 g/cm3. More...

Bio-based polyamides with low water absorption

Bio-based polyamides with low water absorption

Avient introduces its Nymax BIO Formulations, a line of bio-based polyamide materials that help customers reach their sustainability goals. These new materials also solve the long-standing problem of undesirable water absorption levels in other bio-derived polyamide materials available today. More...

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