{"id":5827,"date":"2020-11-13T13:09:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/5-key-issues-related-to-recycling-plastic-food-packaging\/"},"modified":"2020-11-13T13:09:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:09:53","slug":"5-key-issues-related-to-recycling-plastic-food-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/en\/5-key-issues-related-to-recycling-plastic-food-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"5 KEY ISSUES RELATED TO RECYCLING PLASTIC FOOD PACKAGING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On\n14 October this year, Gu\u00eda Blanco and V\u00edctor Barrera, in collaboration with the\ninternational packaging-sector website PACKAGING EUROPE, hosted a webinar\nentitled <em>\u201cHow to achieve recyclability in transparent food contact plastic\npackaging<\/em>\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The following are the most important issues that arose from the conference. <strong>The advantages of PET trays over PP trays in terms of the circular economy. <\/strong>They are easier to sort and classify, even when made of multilayer film. Recycling plants are increasingly separating out bales of postconsumer PET trays. This is due to the expected growth in demand for bottle flakes between now and 2030, with many 100% RPET applications already being produced. While is true that the PP recycling stream is being developed in most European countries, unlike PET, this does not have an EFSA-approved decontamination technology that allows the recycled material to be certified food safe.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Advantages of rPET trays over other\npackaging, in relation to its carbon footprint. <\/strong>rPET reduces carbon emissions and does not\nconsume fossil fuels, so its carbon footprint is 0.45 kg per kilogram, as\nopposed to 2.15 kg for virgin PET. This represents 79% fewer greenhouse gas\nemissions, making it by far the best option. Very few alternatives have such a\nlow environmental impact, not even reusable containers. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Regulations on the inclusion of\nrecycled material, and more liability for waste producers. <\/strong>A tax of \u20ac 0.45 per kg of plastic\nconsumed is expected for Spain. The EU also recently announced a new tariff for\nall member states of \u20ac 0.80 per kg of plastic packaging that is not correctly\nrecycled, which will come into force on 1 January 2021. Although the details\nhave still not been published, this tariff is not expected to apply to the\npercentage of plastic that is recycled.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Advantages of monomaterial packaging\nif they cannot include recycled material. <\/strong>There is a general tendency in Europe towards\nrecycling PE. The idea is that replacing multilayer materials (which are\ndifficult to sort and reprocess) with a monomaterial PE will help improve the\nrecycling of flexible plastic waste. However, while this has been achieved for\nmany applications, in some cases it is not possible. There are a few variables\nthat we need to bear in mind, for example, that mechanical recycling cannot be\nused with food-safe applications, and that there are other options, such as\nchemical recycling and the use of biological waste to create PE. These are\ncurrently being considered by the European Commission, which will decide\nwhether to introduce legislation on them or exclude them from taxes. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Guarantees of the supply of\nchemically recycled solutions and\/or bio-based solutions. <\/strong>Although it is still too soon to\npredict what the supply and demand will be for each type of polymer and\nrecycling technology, at SP GROUP we see more future for solutions that do not\ncompete with resources used for food production. We also believe that\ninvestment in chemical recycling technology has grown exponentially, with an\nalmost endless amount of plastic waste to recycle; although the carbon\nfootprint is practically the same as for virgin polymer. We hope that these,\nand other new developments, also provide us with many options for also\nrecycling materials that will be food safe, and that the European Commission\nagrees these sections of recycled material should be exempt from plastic taxes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To watch the webinar, click on the following <a href=\"https:\/\/packagingeurope.com\/how-to-achieve-recyclability-with-recycled-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 October this year, Gu\u00eda Blanco and V\u00edctor Barrera, in collaboration with the international packaging-sector website PACKAGING EUROPE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2WEBINAR_MINIATURA-WP.jpg",238,360,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2WEBINAR_MINIATURA-WP-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2WEBINAR_MINIATURA-WP-198x300.jpg",198,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2WEBINAR_MINIATURA-WP.jpg",238,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2WEBINAR_MINIATURA-WP.jpg",238,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2WEBINAR_MINIATURA-WP.jpg",238,360,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2WEBINAR_MINIATURA-WP.jpg",238,360,false],"destacado-size":["https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2WEBINAR_MINIATURA-WP-238x180.jpg",238,180,true],"cuadrado-size":["https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2WEBINAR_MINIATURA-WP-238x250.jpg",238,250,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"AGSanchez","author_link":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/en\/author\/agsanchez\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"On 14 October this year, Gu\u00eda Blanco and V\u00edctor Barrera, in collaboration with the international packaging-sector website PACKAGING EUROPE...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spg-pack.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}