date:Mar 04, 2019
ert thousands of tonnes of black plastic from ending up in landfill each year providing the first real possibility of a circular economy for black plastic packaging.
Currently standard black PET trays are manufactured using a carbon black colour additive. Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) use Near-Infra-Red (NIR) Optical Sorting Equipment to identify and sort various plastic waste streams including PET plastic.
The standard black PET trays absorb the infra-red beams making them invisible to