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Polypropylene progress
Around 20% of the plastic recycled is polypropylene, but the diversity of products it protects has prevented safe reprocessing back into food packaging. Until now. David Burrows reports
When you think of recycling plastic, what springs to mind? It’s probably a bottle – one maybe protecting a fizzy drink (likely made of PET, polyethylene terephthalate) or milk (which is mostly HDPE, oContinue reading this with an IEMA membership
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