PACKAGING | INNOVATION
that both protect our products and reduce the environmental impact. Today, we don’t have access to food-grade recycled PE and PP, which limits our ability to increase the share of recycled material in our packaging.”
Arla is a member of the Danish-led project, Crisp
(Circular Recycling Innovation for Sustainable Packaging), running from 2025 to 2028, and sup- ported by the Environmental Technology Develop- ment and Demonstration Programme, which aims to demonstrate that plastics including PP and PE from food packaging can be sorted, purified, and recycled into new food packaging safely, efficiently, and on a large scale. The Danish Technological Institute has gathered companies and organisations from the entire value chain which intend to pool their resourc- es to develop new technologies enabling more food packaging to be recycled. “It will be a breakthrough if we can show that Danes’ used hard plastic food packaging can be collected, sorted and recycled into new food packaging. Now we have both the legislation and the partnership in place to make this a reality,” said Per Sigaard Christensen, Business Manager at the Danish Technological Institute.
By the end of the project in 2028, the goal is to have established a production-ready supply chain with the capacity to handle a minimum of 10,000 tonnes of plastic annually. The Crisp project builds on previous experi-
ences of successfully recycling household plastic waste into cosmetic-grade packaging. “For several years, we have been working hard to improve the quality of recycled plastic. We have already proven that we can produce recycled plastic for cosmetics packaging from household plastics. Now we are taking the crucial next step towards food-grade recycling,” said Franz Cuculiza, CEO of the plastic recycling company Aage Vestergaard Larsen. To improve the quality of the recycled plastic,
the project partners will further develop and demonstrate: advanced sorting technology with AI and cameras that can recognise food packaging among other plastic waste; effective cleaning methods that can remove all unwanted substances from plastic waste; new packaging designs specifically adapted to recycled plastics and research into what makes consumers accept recycled plastics in food packaging. A bottleneck often referenced with regards to
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