Packaging materials

When it comes to wrapping pallets, the current industry standard is a multi-layer plastic material with sometimes low recycling rates. With Advantage StretchWrap, Mondi now offers a new, lightweight paper that has been specifically designed to wrap pallets, and can be recycled to boot.
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In November 2021, things changed for Coca-Cola customers: the bottle caps of the company’s popular beverages suddenly looked a bit different.
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One trend that has clearly come to the fore within the packaging industry in the last months and years is the shift towards paper-based packaging. But the rise in demand is increasingly putting a strain on supply, and packaging manufacturers aren’t the only ones facing raw material shortages, both when it comes to virgin fibre and waste paper.
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Using recyclates is completely in line with a circular economy. Secondary raw materials are won by recycling plastics that have been disposed of at least once – either as household waste (post-consumer recyclates, PCR) or as production waste (post-industrial recyclates, PIR). The most successful example of this to date are PET bottles: In a genuine cycle covering collection systems, reprocessing and reuse, old materials are given a new lease on life.
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Paper packaging has always been part of the panorama in every supermarket. Recently, however, they have also been used in previously unfamiliar areas.
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Contaminated or mixed plastic waste is a problem for the circular economy - it cannot be recycled and ends up in landfills or thermal recycling. BASF has now developed polystyrene boxes made from chemically recycled plastic in a joint project with Vartdal Plast and Bremnes Seashore.
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