Design for Recycling Table

FULL COMPATIBILITY - IDEAL
TOLERATED COMPATIBILITY
LIMITED COMPATIBILITY - CONDITIONAL
NOT COMPATIBLE AND/OR DISRUPTIVE
COMMENTS
Guidelines for Pulping Recovery
MATERIALS

Nature of the fibres:

Natural cellulosic defibrated fibers  (any sources : wood, bamboo, sugarcan pulp, bagasse ...)

Application:

- Paper-cardboard

- Corrugated cardboard

- Molded/moulded cellulose

- Translucent/ transparent papers 

 

Nature of the fibres:

- Synthetic fibres  :  plastics, regenerated celluloses (as Viscose, Cellophane, Lyocell, Modal ...)

- Undefibrated raw material (wood, bamboo, palm tree leaf, cocoa pods, raw bagasse...)

Those materials are not paper-cardboard

Application:

- Reinforced paper-cardboard (metalic, plastic, textile,..)

You have to differentiate the plants from the paper cardboard which contains cellulosic fibers.

See Glossary for more explanations

COLOR

- Unbleached pulp

- Bleached pulp

- Mass tinted pulp

Avoid bright and dark colors in the mass.

MASS TREATMENT / FILLER

- Mass tinted pulp

- Non defibrated vegetables debris incorporated into the paper pulp (grass debris, cocoa shell debris...)

- Synthetic fibers (plastics, regenerated cellulose as Viscose, Cellophane, Lyocell, Modal ...)

- Wet strength treatment with a sufficient pulping test after < 45 minutes

 

- Wet strenght treatment with an unsufficient pulping after 45 minutes 

Example of wet strenght treatment: PAE  (Polyamide Amine Epichlorhydrine)

 

The sufficient pulping time is verifiable through a laboratory test

COATINGS / BARRIERS

- Mineral coating, mineral fillers *1

- Polymeric coating

- PVOH

- Casein

 

- Extrusion of lamination*3 of  plastic layers: PE,PP, PLA,PET, other resin, excluding PVC/PVdC

- silicone paper

- Viscose

- Cellophane

 - PE/aluminium

 - Aluminium film

- Paraffin (Wax for paper)

- PVC/PVdC *²

- Extrusions or laminations XPS or PSE

 

- Sufurated paper

*1 : mineral fillers in the mass are counted in the papier cardboard weight.

*² :  PVC/ PVdC generates chlorine emissions during the energetic reuse process of recycling industrial wastes.

* If the paper-cardboard content in the packaging is near 50 %, please check that the reject rate is less than 50%. (another condition to claim that a paper-cardboard packaging is recylcable)

CLOSING SYSTEM / WINDOWS OR OTHER ACCESSORIES

- Paper tape

- Staples

- Paper & board cover (molded fibers,...)

- Translucent paper windows (cristal, glassine,...)

- Plastic tape, glue/ adhesives

- Plastic windows or other plastic object (cover, caps ...) excl. PVC / PVdC*²

- Others materials (metal, wood, etc.)

- Regenerated cellulose 

 

- PVC/ PVdC *²

*² :  PVC/ PVdC generates chlorine emissions during the energetic reuse process of recycling industrial wastes.

LABEL MATERIALS

- Paper label

- Plastic label (excluding PVC / PVdC *²)

- Wet Strenght paper label

- Label with PVC / PVdC *²

 

*² :  PVC/ PVdC generates chlorine emissions during the energetic reuse process of recycling industrial wastes.

INKS, METALLIC DECORATION

- Intense and bleeding colors

- Inks with more than 1% of MOSH et MOAH (Mineral Oils)

ADHESIFS / GLUES

- Screenable adhesives

these adhesives will be weel eliminated at the screening step 

 

- Dispersables adhesives

these adhesives will be dispersed in the water process

- Partially dispersables or non screenable adhesives

Can generate stickies (impacts on the paper quality and machineries)

OTHER INTEGRATED COMPONENT

- Wineskin (BagInBox ®)

- RFID Chips

- Regenerated cellulose

Guidelines for Sorting
COATINGS / BARRIERS

- Vacuum metallisation that is not intended to be detected first by the infrared rays of optical sorting

- Aluminum lamination that is not intended to be detected first by the infrared rays of optical sorting

INKS, METALLIC DECORATION

- Foil stamping, metallic inks, aluminium lamination or vacuum metallisation – Coverage rate ≤ 50 % of the total surface of the packaging that is intended to be detected first by the infrared rays of optical sorting

- Foil stamping, metallic inks, aluminium lamination or vacuum metallisation – Coverage rate > 50 % of the total surface of the packaging that is intended to be detected first by the infrared rays of optical sorting

Last Update : December 2025