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Unilever develops new recycling technology for new product packaging

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core tip: Unilever has developed a new recycling technology to recycle these bags. This recycling system called "creasolv" can extract the plastic from the packaging bag and use it for new product packaging to achieve circular economy. This is part of Unilever's 2025 declaration that all plastic packaging is completely recyclable, reusable or decomposable

[China Packaging News] in recent years, the "small packaging economy" has been in power, but it may be a heavy burden on the environment. Unilever, a major consumer goods manufacturer, has developed new recycling technologies to achieve sustainable packaging, which is expected to avoid packaging entering the sea or landfills, the Independent reported

"billions of packaging bags in the world are discarded after being used up and enter landfills or oceans. We need to open up this technology and expand it with industry partners -- it can be divided into mechanical force testing machine and electronic force testing machine -- Dr. dongshuangling of Beijing University of chemical technology has a large scale of Technology, so that others, including competitors, can use it." Said David Blanchard, head of Unilever research and development

small plastic packages commonly used by Indonesian vendors. Source: ikhlasul Amal (CC by-nc 2.0)

Unilever sells tens of billions of products and disposable packaging bags every year, including beauty products and food, which are mainly sold to developing and emerging markets

the company said it had developed a new recycling technology to recycle these bags. This recycling system called "creasolv" can extract the plastic from the packaging bag and use it for new product packaging to achieve circular economy. This is part of Unilever's 2025 declaration that all plastic packaging is completely recyclable, reusable or decomposable

Unilever will first set up a pilot plant in Indonesia to observe the commercial feasibility of the new technology. Indonesia produces 64 million tons of garbage every year, of which 1.3 million tons enter the sea. Andreas m ä urer, director of the plastic recycling Department of the Fraunhofer Institute for process engineering and packaging IVV, which cooperates with Unilever to develop this technology, said: "in this pilot plant, we will recover high-value polymers from used consumer multilayer packaging bags for the first time."

billions of bags enter the ocean every year. Photo source: Unilever

the Allen MacArthur Foundation once predicted that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the sea than fish, and many brand manufacturers have to review their plastic packaging policies

c characterization of metal mechanical properties o-op supermarket said it would introduce new recyclable pizza packaging to reduce the amount of garbage. Last November, the company announced that it would achieve 80% recyclable packaging by 2020. In February this year, Johnson & Johnson stopped selling plastic cotton sticks, the most common garbage on the coast of Britain, in half of the markets, and instead made sticks of cotton sticks from paper