LINPAC Packaging
Pots, Tubs & Trays Sector
David Eggleston
www.linpacpackaging.com
Pots, Tubs & Trays need to be
recycled to hit 2017 Targets
• Places unnatural constraints on Innovation through
implication that recycling is the only answer
– Anything that anything that assists recycling must also
be “de facto” good
• Ignores the environmental role that food packaging plays
in food waste reduction - concentrates on its situation
post-use only
• Potentially forces our industry to react to a challenge
between very difficult and impossible; consumes
unnecessary time and resource; to no real end
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Practical difficulties
• Lack of consistent collection infrastructure available today dependent on LAs and WM Cos themselves constrained by preexisting contracts
• Time frame to implement engineering solutions barely enough given
immediate decisions
• Potential road-blocks in secondary applications
• Unsuitable for food use and other cosmetic (Beauty and health
applications) as
• Feedstock too mixed & cannot be sure of its food-use origin –
maybe garden chemicals etc
• Possible use of recyclate in first use; maybe behind a
“functional barrier”
• Apart from PET, most commodity plastics absorb significant
contamination
• Effect of inks, dyes etc
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Two Routes for Carbon Mitigation
Recycling
• Popular with
consumers
• Restricting Material
Choice
• Favours Heavier
Formats
• Stifles Innovation
Innovation
• Foamed Solutions
• Use of mineral Fillers
• Complex Multi-layer
Structures
• New Materials
• New Formats
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What has already been done
• Significant enhancement to performance of packaging;
weight, shelf life, barrier, added functionalities
• Success in bottle recovery recycling rates
• Designing for recycling where practicable to do so
• Driving use of recyclate like rPET where suitability for
food-use can be guaranteed
• Huge investment in super-cleaning technologies in
major converters
• Development of IR sortable black trays to avoid them
becoming discards
• New Technology development - LINPAC’s patented
Elite Solution
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Industry Innovation Meeting
Waste Directive Challenge
Super-Lightweight mono material protein trays utilising a
specially formulated sealing material to replace the
laminated base film. The PATENT for this has been
granted in the U.K., 2478028.
Super
lightweight
mono material
rPET tray
designed using
LIFE®
principles
Proprietary
sealing material
applied to flange
for top sealing
of
complementary
lidding films
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