date:Jun 24, 2014
been halved. Whats more, the film is easier to separate and use than paper. The film is simply cut off the recycler and used again in its entirety. Paper labels, by contrast, are washed off, they get frayed, they decompose and at some point in time they end up in the wastewater, explains Walter Goisser.
Yet another aspect favouring the use of plastic labels on PET containers is that they upgrade the bottles visual appearance: when PET containers expand, the paper label is inevitably stretched,