UK funds study on using recycled PP in food packaging

摘要

The UK's Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has launched a study with the goal of enabling recycled polypropylene plastic to be used in food packaging, it announced this week.rnIt hopes to create a "breakthrough" in sustainable food grade packaging options for retailers and brands by investigating the process of recycling PP, and the commercial viability of it in food-grade packaging.rn"Polypropylene is regularly recycled into industry plastics application (such as buckets and pallets), but until now, recycling it into food grade packaging has not been possible," said Wrap on 20 April.