date:Aug 03, 2012
d and that contaminate product. Such exclusion costs money and hurts economic viability.
Cornell said the group estimates some bales have 10% of the bottles with full body sleeve labels.
If those labels do not separate, then the PET recyclate can be contaminated with dryer-fouling, low temperature melting resins or the inks and decoration on the labels renders the PET no longer clear and colourless.
That means lower recycled PET sales price, lower product yield, increased raw material cost, a