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Recyclable snack packs with improved barrier protection research uses PLA from corn
Aimplas, the plastics technology centre based in Spain, has started a project to combine polyglycolic acid (PGA) with modified silica oxide in packaging film, to make a recyclable film with improved barrier properties against oxygen and water.
Current packaging uses metallised barrier materials for snacks, which are very difficult to recycle.
The project, ‘Refucoat’, is also pioneering a new PLA grade from corn waste products, for packaging chicken, cereals and snacks.
Refucoat has brought together twelve partners from five countries, in the European Union Horizon 2020 funded programme.
×The corn germ of an idea - the source of recyclable snack packaging.
The development of this project has been co-funded with the support of the LIFE financial instrument of the European Union
[LIFE16 ENV/ES/000305]
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