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from the holistic Bottles & Shapes
consultancy program together
with environmental service provider
Interseroh from Cologne according
to their latest design guidelines.
Environmental service
provider issues
recycling seal
Following a number of
optimisations the Beyond Juice
bottle was issued with the Made
for Recycling seal by Interseroh
– the first PET bottle to score a
full 20 out of 20 points. “Thanks
to the seal on the label, for
the first time consumers can
now allow the bottle’s truly
excellent recycling properties
to help influence their decision
to buy when standing in front
of the supermarket shelf,” says
packaging engineer Julian Thielen
from Interseroh. “In the medium
term, for packaging the criterion
of recyclability will additionally
become just as important as the
aspects of product protection,
convenience and attractiveness –
also on an international scale.”
Unique product
protection
The Beyond Juice bottle satisfies
all of these criteria – among other
things with the help of FreshSafe
PET. “We were only able to give
top marks when analysing the
bottle’s recyclability because
KHS SiOx barrier technology
was used,” Thielen explains.
“Alternative composite materials
utilised as a barrier also often
colour the recyclate and yield an
inferior quality.” Beyond Juice
does not apply these otherwise
usual composite materials which
are added to the bottle material
to protect the product and make
pure-grade recycling much more
difficult or even impossible.
This topic is quickly gaining in
significance on an international
scale, too. This is illustrated, for
example, by the plastics strategy
presented by the EU Commission
at the start of 2018 which aspires
to make all packaging waste in
Europe recyclable by 2030.
FreshSafe PET also ensures that
sensitive, high-quality juices and
spritzers, for instance, keep up
to ten times longer than those
filled into uncoated bottles. This is
primarily thanks to the wafer-thin
layer of glass applied to the inside
of the bottle which prevents oxygen
from penetrating the bottle and CO2
from escaping from it.
Trouble-free recycling
of the entire bottle
The label area on the Beyond Juice
container has been kept so small
that sorting systems recognize it as
a PET bottle. This makes sure that
the container can be reintroduced
to the recycling loop and is not
simply used to make energy. It was
also important to select the right
kind of adhesive so that the label
can be separated from the plastic
in the recycling process and there
is no unintentional soiling during the
washing process.
The new KHS bottle concept has
also been developed as a film-free
pack for recycling purposes. Dots
of adhesive which are strong and
secure yet easy to remove hold
the bottles together. With Nature
MultiPackT from KHS the film
otherwise used to package the PET
bottles as a six-pack, for example,
is no longer required. This adhesive
is also easily removed during
recycling. “By doing away with the
secondary film around the pack
we’re helping to further reduce this
type of packaging waste by up to
90%,” Langhammer claims.
As the Beyond Juice bottle consists
of 100% rPET, it significantly helps
to reduce the carbon footprint left by
packaging throughout its entire life
cycle. New studies by recognized
trade associations confirm that PET
bottles made of 100% recyclate
have a much lower carbon footprint
than containers made of what is
known as virgin PET. Langhammer
concludes that “at a production of
50 million bottles a year more than
1,500 metric tons of raw material in
the form of new PET could be saved
by our bottle.”
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