Shrink sleeves interfere with the mechanical recycling of plastic bottles because of their poor
sortability during near-infrared (NIR)-based sorting. This study aims to identify reasons for …

Mass-based material flow compositions (MFCOs) are crucial to assess and optimize
mechanical plastic recycling processes. While MFCOs are determined by manual sorting …

Sensor-based material flow characterization (SBMC) promises to improve the performance
of future-generation sorting plants by enabling new applications like automatic quality …

Sorting plants are crucial for effective recycling, but their optimization can be challenging
due to the heterogeneity of waste streams. We introduce a novel approach to holistically …

To achieve the goals of the circular economy, significant improvements in non-hazardous
solid waste processing/treatment must be made. Large deficits in the digitalization of …

New regulations require improvement of plastic packaging waste management to meet
higher recycling rates. One solution for today's multilayers and other sorting challenges is …

The use of plastic waste as resource gains more and more attention. In this context, material
recycling is especially focused on packaging plastics. Further waste streams that contain a …

The main data on the production volume of bottles from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in
the world are presented. The main ways of handling used PET bottles as one of the …

Determining mass-based material flow compositions (MFCOs) is crucial for assessing and
optimizing the recycling of post-consumer plastics. Currently, MFCOs in plastic recycling are …

According to the Directive (EU) 2018/851 of the European Union, higher recycling rates for
municipal waste will have to be met in the near future. Beside improvements to the collection …