6/11/2023 0 Comments Merlin project training![]() ![]() These are expected to provide solutions to recover and recycle 3.03 million tonnes per year of multilayer packaging waste in Europe, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on imported fossil fuels. MERLIN’s main objective is to offer technological solutions to increase the quality and waste rate of recycled multilayer packaging and to work on the development of disruptive processes for the sorting, delamination and recycling of multilayer rigid and flexible plastic packaging with a circular economy model. Therefore, this project will focus on the identification of multilayer rigid, non-metallised flexible and metallised flexible packaging, as well as on their recycling, by developing a specific recovery process for each of them. This results in multilayer packaging being landfilled or incinerated and requires improved sorting and recycling processes for multilayer plastic waste currently not recovered from post-consumer sources. In addition, the high-strength adhesive used to bond the layers requires the current delamination processes to be improved and optimised. Moreover, once sorted, their recyclability depends on costly and complex methods to separate their layers, as the different nature of the polymers makes them incompatible. These are structures that are difficult to detect in sorting plants, as current technologies can only identify their surface layer. This is still far from the target of recycling 55% of plastic by 2030, as set out in the European Plastics Strategy and Directive (EU) 2018/852 on packaging and packaging waste.Ĭurrently, the market demands a large share of multilayer packaging. Only 32.5% of this plastic packaging was recycled, while 42.6% was incinerated and 24.9% was landfilled (data from Plastics, The Facts 2020). In 2019, 29.1m tonnes of post-consumer plastic waste was collected in Europe. ![]() Digital transformation and connectivity.Packaging and packaging-product interaction.Packaging material formulation and processing.Specialised training, networking and custom-made courses.Safety and environmental monitoring technologies Safety, design and functionality in packaging Materials and technologies for the circular economy ![]()
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