The removal of self-adhesive labels from one-way glass bottles can be a challenge during the glass recycling process, impacting both the quality and availability of recycled material. Avery Dennison Glass Recycling materials use a self-adhesive technology that helps to solve these challenges, whilst at the same time maintaining shelf appeal.
“Avery Dennison recognises that post-consumer recycling is one of the key elements of sustainable packaging,” commented Vladimir Tyulpin, business development and product manager at Avery Dennison Materials Group Europe. “Brand owners are striving to make their packaging more sustainable, and to contribute to a circular economy. Such initiatives are important and they can also help businesses to differentiate from the competition, with a positive brand value perception.”
Avery Dennison Glass Recycling materials use a unique ‘switchable’ adhesive, which is engineered to facilitate easy label removal from the glass bottle surface in the glass recycling stream. This adhesive ‘switches off’ during the glass bottle recycling process, to facilitate clean separation of the label from the glass.
Transitioning to the new labelling material is said to be easy for converters and brand owners as it does not require investment in new equipment or changes to existing processes. For single-use bottles, recyclable glass can be contaminated with unwanted label material – with up to 74% of the label material continuing through the recycling stream. Additionally, for every tonne of glass fragments, up to 40kg can end up in landfill if not cleanly separated from the label material.
This post first appeared on Packaging News on October 13, 2015
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Sustainable Brands Staff
Published Oct 23, 2015 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT / 9pm BST / 10pm CEST