PET sleeves receive temporary recyclability approval

Petcore Europe’s ODR working group, which works on recycling of opaque or difficult plastic items, has acquired a 3-year temporary endorsement for perforated sleeves on household and personal care (HPC) PET bottles. 

The approval has been granted by the European PET Bottle Platform (EBPB), a voluntary industry initiative that provides PET bottle design guidelines for recycling and evaluates PET bottle packaging solutions. 

The Petcore working group has been working on increased recyclability of sleeved PET bottles, under the lead of the its chair Gian De Belder, P&G. As part of the effort, the group has come up with the solution to use perforated recyclable sleeves which are removable by consumers. 

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