TD shrink sleeve material for "recycling-friendly" sleeves
CCL Label (premium packaging and comprehensive label solutions) created the cutting-edge TD Shrink Sleeve material EcoFloat™, enabling the packaging industry to meet environmental sustainability goals while enhancing the look & feel of the product, exploiting the advantages offered by sleeve labeling, which allows great freedom and flexibility in designing bottles with an attractive look.
CCL polyolefin film EcoFloat™ shrink sleeves are designed to shrink to the bottle without the need for glues. During the recycling process they separate from the bottle after grinding and are removed from the rPET flakes by sink/float separation and elutriation. Data supplied from tests carried out according to the EPBP testing protocol demonstrated removal of the label during the washing process and no negative impact on the colour and processing performance of the resulting rPET as far as the unprinted film is considered and the prescribed conditions respected.
1) EcoFloat™ meets the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) standards in the US and the European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP) standards in Europe, the voluntary industry initiative that provides PET bottle design guidelines for recycling, evaluates PET bottle packaging solutions and technologies and facilitates understanding of the effects of new PET bottle innovations on recycling processes.
