Recycling is the hottest topic for sustainability today. In this article we want to talk about recyclable flexible packaging:
Recyclable flexible packaging means the flexible packaging that can be recycled to new products after usage. Such as all kinds of plastic shopping bag, plastic flower sleeves, roll bag, garbage bag, coffee bag, tea bag, snack food bag, daily product bag, pet food bag, food bag, etc.
There are mainly 2 kinds of flexible packaging:
Normally same material is recyclable. For example, PE bag and PE bag are ok to recycle.
Different material but with similar melting point is recyclable too, such as PE, CPP, and BOPP
But it is very complicated when it comes to the materials with different. It highly depends on what kind of recycling facility you are using, some basic recycling facility can only recycle similar melting point material, but some other facilities can recycles some specific materials with different melting point at certain percentage. But with the development of recycling technology, more and more materials can recycle together. Below is a chart showing recyclable material standard by weight and this is most of recycling facilities can do nowadays.
Recycle flexible packaging is not easy; it needs professional machines for it. So all the flexible packaging can only be recycled in recycling facilities. Currently many countries are supporting this program, they with deduct tax and even provide funds for the company.
This is very important for recycling; we will need to make sure the products are well accepted in the market so it makes this whole recycling process meaningful.
Currently there are mainly 3 kinds of products made from recyclable flexible packaging
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