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Trex offers to test film recyclability for firms


US-based Trex, a leading manufacturer of wood-plastic composite decking, is offering free recyclability testing to users of plastic packaging. By doing this, it hopes to sign up more partners to its NexTrex recycling programme – which sources used plastic film to use in its decking products. Each year, the company says it uses more than 400 million lbs (around 180,000 tonnes) of used plastic film in its products – which is made from 95% recycled material. Its main sources of raw material are retailers


and makers of consumer packaged goods. The testing process validates whether material is capable of being recycled in the Trex recycling stream. “Trex invented composite decking more than 25 years ago as a way to reduce waste generated from plastic bags,” said Dave Heglas, senior director of material management at Trex. “We are one of the largest recyclers of plastic film in North America.” Packaging designers,


producers, and brand owners submit a packaged


product sample, and Trex will test it for free – and provide a report assessing three areas for acceptance: package/ film recyclability; affect/risk of product contamination; and affect/ risk of non-recy- clable ‘lookalike’ package contamination. This will allow adjustments to be made, in order to meet recyclability standards. Trex says that it addition-


ally works with its recycling partners to make the collection and transporta- tion of materials as easy as possible for them. � www.trex.com


PRE’s new sorting


guidelines


New guidance from Plastics Recyclers Europe shows best practices for plastics packaging sorting facilities. The trade organisation


said: “To optimise the output quality, in a sorting facility plastic packaging should be automatically sorted through a series of consecutive steps, increasing the efficiency as well as the effective- ness of establishing highly refined waste streams.” PRE issued its sorting guidelines in June. � www.plasticsrecyclers.eu


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