The Black Plastic Packaging Recycling Forum brings together 61 UK stakeholders / Sorting is a challenge

摘要

A new industry group, the Black Plastic Packaging Recycling Forum (BPPRF), has been established in the UK. The forum hopes to have put into place sustainable solutions to recycle all types of black plastic packaging by 2018. Black plastic is effective in conducting heat for ready-to-cook packaged food trays as well as visually appealing for food item presentation. The plastic can be produced by mixing several colours together from different sources. Most black plastic is coloured using carbon black pigments. Because these pigments absorb infrared light, they cannot be optically identified and sorted by many recycling facilities, which largely use near infrared detection for plastics sorting.