Global Aluminium Foil Roller Initiative (GLAFRI)

GLAFRI

Aluminium is one of the best performing barrier materials in polymer flexible packaging with many key advantages. It facilitates lightweight packaging alternatives over more resource-intense rigid packaging options and achieves superior product protection and shelf live, while simplifying supply chain requirements. A key challenge today is that even in advanced recycling systems today, only the aluminium content of this high-performance packaging material is recirculated. The plastics share – often more than 70% - is at best used for energy. Better recycling options that recover the plastics from this packaging waste are needed.

Recently the Global Aluminium Foil Roller Initiative (GLAFRI) organized a webinar regarding “Alufoil Sorting and Recycling” for representatives of the aluminium foil industry. At the webinar Saperatec presented its Advanced Mechanical Recycling solution for polymer-alufoil composite packaging waste. Based on the webinar an overview on modern technologies including the Saperatec Advanced Mechanical Recycling technology was published by International ALUMINIUM Journal.

The article can be downloaded here (link: https://www.global-alufoil.org/files/GLAFRI/downloads/2021/Sorting_Recycling_alufoil-ALUMINIUM_06-2021.pdf)