Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola is testing a new plastic sleeve labels , which will be used for Christmas launch of the product . Coca-Cola said that this sleeve labels easier to recycle .

        Comprehensive coverage of bottle shrink sleeve label can provide sufficient space for images and product information, more and more vendors are welcome . But for plastics recyclers concerned, this material is difficult to handle, because they

        But Coca-Cola has developed a new type of sleeve labels . This alternative mixing a polyolefin modified with pins made of PET , PET may be separated from the bottom of the sink and float in the flotation tank.

        Currently, the bottle with full sleeve labels account for nearly 5% in plastic packaging recycling in the future, this ratio will continue to rise. Full sleeve label makes optical sorting equipment mistaken colored resin , it is easy to mix with the bottom of the tank sank sorting clean PET flakes . When recyclers use of air separation technology for washing , because similar characteristics , they also mixed with lightweight mineral water bottles .

        Under real environmental conditions , Coca-Cola will this polyolefin stickers on thousands of plastic bottles for testing , and these different PET bottles sent to recycling plants , recycling quiz.

        Satisfactory test results prompted Coca-Cola decided to use this new sleeve label in its design specifically for the Christmas holiday disposable round plastic bottle.

        Can not be sorted by the sorting unit , will give a series of problems caused by the optical sorting machine , if you can not float in the flotation tank , not air separation and so on.