Recycling breakthrough thanks to PP labels
A UK consortium comprising a milk bottle manufacturer, a dairy products brand owner and a label converter has found that using polypropylene labels on HDPE bottles enables the labels to be cleanly peeled away from the used bottles before recycling. This prevents the contamination of the HDPE flakes which occurs when paper labels are used. The results so far are encouraging but not conclusive, and the consortium will encourage leading HDPE reprocessing plants and recycling equipment manufacturers throughout Europe to conduct a series of laboratory and medium-scale trials to develop workable solutions.The converter taking part in this research is Systems Labelling Ltd., and the full report is available on the website of recycling organization WRAP
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