New UK cross-industry group The Black Plastic Packaging Recycling Forum, which groups manufacturers, packers, brands, retailers, reprocessors, trade associations, and non-profit organisation RECOUP, has come up with recycling roadmap with the aim of recycling more black plastic in the UK. It is a significant step forward for the sector as it will help to reduce waste from single-use plastics such as bottles and cans, while also helping to improve recyclability by encouraging manufacturers to develop new The ultimate aim is to drive black plastic recycling forwards in a practical and sensible way, turning ambitions and collaborative thinking into actual delivery.” This means that the packs are not detected, and hence not sorted, by optical sorting systems using the near infra-red (NIR) detection used widely in sorting facilities.
New UK cross-industry group The Black Plastic Packaging Recycling Forum, which groups manufacturers, packers, brands, retailers, reprocessors, trade associations, and non-profit organisation RECOUP, has come up with recycling roadmap with the aim of recycling more black plastic in the UK. It is a significant step forward for the sector as it will help to reduce waste from single-use plastics such as bottles and cans, while also helping to improve recyclability by encouraging manufacturers to develop new This means that the packs are not detected, and hence not sorted, by optical sorting systems using the near infra-red (NIR) detection used widely in sorting facilities.