date:Aug 07, 2019
e UK with over 90% ending up buried or incinerated because they are not detectable by the near Infra-Red (NIR) optical sorting systems in the Manufacturing Recycling Facilities (MRFS)
The carbon blended polymer in standard black packaging does not allow the passage of light through the trays. The detectors do not see anything the black trays are essentially invisible to the sorting systems and end up in landfill or are incinerated.
The material blend enables black packaging waste to be sorted