Recycling of Multilayer Packaging Films: Delamination Chemistry and Polymer Property Retention

Authors

  • Sadhbh Blake-Kavanagh Department of Polymer Science, Ox Mountains Institute of Advanced Technology, Ballina, Ireland Author
  • Eberhard Hohnstedt Centre for Circular Materials, Rothaargebirge Institute of Advanced Technology, Winterberg, Germany Author
  • Bieke Ingels Department of Process Engineering, Calestienne Centre for Emerging Materials, Couvin, Belgium Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22674577

Keywords:

Recycling of Multilayer Packaging Films; Next-generation R&D; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Recycling of Multilayer Packaging Films has moved quickly from a niche engineering question to something a wider community
can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the
current evidence for recycling of multilayer packaging films, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles,
with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where engineers and reviewers are still largely working it out for
themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or
blanket avoidance.

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