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A 12-strong European consortium has secured €1.9m of EU funding
to develop processes to add value to recycled plastics for
food contact applications.
The companies, who along with the EU will commit a total
of €2.4m to the project, include Fraunhofer Institute, S+S
Separation and Sorting Technology and Extricom from Germany,
Smithers Rapra Technology, The University of Exeter and the
British Plastics Federation from the UK, Dentis, Aliplast
and Assocomaplast from Italy, MOS from the Netherlands and
EuPC and CEN from Belgium.
The research will be used to develop a new process for the
recycling of coloured and layered PET into food contact applications
that cannot be processed by current PET recycling facilities.
The objectives are -
- To develop a test to validate recycled food contact materials
with 100% reliability
- To create quality protocol for assuring the efficacy of
plastics recycling processes for food contact applications
with 100% reliability
- To development a process to recycle the 700,000 tonnes
per year of currently unrecyclable coloured and layered
PET that cannot be processed by existing PET recycling facilities
for food contact packaging
- To formulate in-line monitoring to indentify contaminants
from oxo-degradable additives, biodegradable plastics, bisphenol
A and non-food contact compliant levels of chemical contamination.
More information can be found at www.supercleanq.eu
Source - rx3
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