Plastic Recycling Organization Offers Guidance for Labels on Plastic Bottles

摘要

The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) has announced new guidance for plastic bottle producers to combat the "serious problem" of recycling new sleeve labels on plastic bottles.APR, the trade group that represents post-consumer plastic recyclers in North America, said sleeve labels, which cover the entire bottle and do not contain adhe-sives, are difficult for existing recycling infrastructure to process and often cause clumping in machinery.