ArticlePolymers2022
Multilayer Packaging in a Circular Economy.
Article in Polymers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Waste Study on Flexible Food and Non-Food Packaging: Detailed Analysis of the Plastic Composition of European Polyethylene-Containing Waste Streams.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Prospects for Recyclable Multilayer Packaging: A Case Study.Polymers · 2023Article
- The Stability of Phenolic Compounds in Fruit, Berry, and Vegetable Purees Based on Accelerated Shelf-Life Testing Methodology.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Overview of the Cast Polyolefin Film Extrusion Technology for Multi-Layer Packaging Applications.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- A Journey from Processing to Recycling of Multilayer Waste Films: A Review of Main Challenges and Prospects.Polymers · 2022Review
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Abstract
Sorting multilayer packaging is still a major challenge in the recycling of post-consumer plastic waste. In a 2019 Germany-wide field study with 248 participants, lightweight packaging (LWP) was randomly selected and analyzed by infrared spectrometry to identify multilayer packaging in the LWP stream. Further investigations of the multilayer packaging using infrared spectrometry and microscopy were able to determine specific multilayer characteristics such as typical layer numbers, average layer thicknesses, the polymers of the outer and inner layers, and typical multilayer structures for specific packaged goods. This dataset shows that multilayer packaging is mainly selected according to the task to be fulfilled, with practically no concern for its end-of-life recycling properties. The speed of innovation in recycling processes does not keep up with packaging material innovations.
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