BOTTLE4FLEX Project develops 100% recyclable skinpack packaging from rPET
AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, Covinil and Eroski have launched the BOTTLE4FLEX Project to develop 100% recyclable flexible skinpack packaging using rPET.
Skinpack offers flexibility to distributors and premium product appearance to consumers.
Skinpack creates an invisible “second skin” around the product. Although it enhances shopping experience with 3D presentation and easy opening as well as efficiency in terms of space and transport, this multilayer packaging faces serious difficulties for recycling.
Through innovations in chemical recycling and polymerization technologies, the project consortium aims to overcome the challenges of recycling multilayer PET flexible packaging and promote sustainability and the efficient use of recycled materials in the food industry.
The BOTTLE4FLEX Project focuses on promoting solvolysis processes for recycling and to modify the properties of PET through partial depolymerization. It also seeks to make use of innovative technologies such as reactive extrusion, as well as monomers and additives to increase the flexibility of recycled PET.
The goal is to develop efficient, sustainable methods that promote the circularity of plastics and lead to new circular production models.
The research project is funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European Union through Next Generation funds within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
