Innovative tear-off features in cardboard-plastic packaging
Cardboard-plastic organizations have already made a strong impression for several years, delivering a definite environmental impact thanks to their recyclability and eco-friendly properties. To make it also more accessible for users to distribute the cardboard and plastic, Greiner Packaging was hauled up with cardboard packaging and labeling firm Offsetdruckerei Schwarzach to create a new tear-off system that operates recycling even more intuitive.
K3
K3 packaging consists of only two ingredients: an unprinted, white, or clear plastic cup, along with a cardboard wrap which, if required, can also be made of recycled material. The new, patent-pending tear-off system starts separating and recycling these two components clean and intuitive. “Cardboard-plastic combinations are much environmentally friendly compared to other packaging solutions.
But it is important that the two components are actually separated and correctly influenced of, too,” accentuates Jens Krause, Sales Director Switzerland at Greiner Packaging. “With that in thought, we have put a lot of effort into producing a new tear-off system in modern months that makes their separation also more intuitive and, most importantly, is difficult to miss.” When the cardboard and plastic are departed, the packaging is 100 percent recyclable, presenting a perfect example of a circular economy product.
One package, many advantages
While the life cycle estimate was the ultimate measure in years past, available recyclability is now viewed as the most critical criterion. On the other hand, sustainability includes making sensible use of resources (including waste as a raw material) and achieving minimal environmental impact. A product’s recyclability and its ecological relationships must both be viewed throughout its life cycle. And by that standard, cardboard-plastic organizations excel. As a result, Greiner Packaging is concentrating on K3 packaging, which allows a type of advantages:
- A K3 cup with a diameter of 95 millimeters and a capability of 500 milliliters reaches a 17 percent decrease in CO2 emissions compared with a conventional direct-printed, thermoformed cup of the same size.
- Seen over its entire lifespan, K3 is undoubtedly the most environmentally beneficial packaging material. When the cardboard and plastic are departed, the packaging is 100 percent recyclable. At the same time, a K3 cup applies up to 33 percent less plastic matched with a direct-printed, thermoformed cup of equal size.
- When departed, the individual components of K3 packaging are 100 percent recyclable, too. These components are correctly classified at trash sorting types of equipment and assigned to the appropriate material stream. An unprinted, white, or transparent plastic cup is the primary ingredient for a prosperous circular economy.
FachPack 2019: review out eco-friendly packaging in person
Anyone involved in K3 packaging, including its new tear-off system, will have the chance to see it for themselves at the FachPack trade display in Nuremberg, Germany, from September 24 to 26, 2019. Greiner Packaging will be showcasing a complete host of ideas and concepts that can help in different ways to deliver a circular economy.
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