Soft packaging recycling is a major progress in the process of processing into the next target

Consulting Axion, based in the UK, has recently announced that it has made significant progress in the use of flexible packaging recycling. Many well-known companies including Dow Chemical Company, Amcor, Interflex group, company Sita, tomra sorting company, Nestle and Unilever companies participated in the project, the reflection membrane recycling project successful progress made a significant contribution.

Packaging manufacturer Amcor is a member of the reflection membrane recycling project, the company's main research focus is to find and evaluate alternative before to recover multilayer film products, the new alternative products meet the standards' recycling 'and give candy packaging and washing packaging industry more high-quality products. On the other hand, polyethylene foam recycling and EPS recycling is necessary.

Axion's project engineer Richard McKinlay Mr. in plastics recycling Fair (pre) after the end of the speech, "at present, we in the reflection membrane recycling project has made significant progress, for example, we use the packaging structure is not easily compatible polymers, advanced technology, with recovery of polymer material re combination of R & D new recyclable products."

His speech about how to design flexible packaging film, which made the relevant introduction, this time to discuss the European and international produced a sensation. Many international famous enterprises and some packaging suppliers have shown great interest in this.

Mr. Richard McKinlay said: in addition, we in the NIR technology made great achievements, the technology is used for detection and separation of mixed polyolefin (PP and PE). This material common to candy wrappers, bread bags and crunchy candy packaging. The improvement of NIR technology will improve the separation efficiency of the material after the soft packaging recovery. We usually get this kind of polyolefin packaging from the landfill, and now it's due to technology improvements that can be extracted from the recycled polymer. NIR technology can also play a greater role, it can identify the material can be degraded and recycled can not meet the conditions of the polymer. In the future we will continue to explore in this area, making automatic sorting technology tends to mature.

The establishment of reflective film project is the hope that the production of polymer, production and packaging waste management and recycling, a series of process, create a circular economy of the soft packaging efficiency.

Soft packaging products include plastic bag packaging, candy packaging, frozen food packaging and self - reliance bags and other products in the field of plastic packaging in the UK accounted for nearly 1/3 (32%). However, the annual production of 414000 tons of plastic bags are not very good use and development, relative to the recovery rate of plastic bottles is about 58%.

At present, the project will further study how soft packaging is processed into high quality recycled plastic particles, increasing its utilization value. According to the forecast, the soft packaging recovery rate of 50% or more, at least ten years.

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