♻️ Colour and Additives for Recycled Plastics ♻️

It’s clear that the importance and reliance on recycled plastics in day-to-day life is growing. Using recycled polymer to create sustainable plastic applications helps to reduce the amount of fossil fuels being used in the production of consumer and industrial plastic products. Recycled polymer is the key to a sustainable plastic industry.

However, while recycled plastics have benefits for the environment, it is critical that these materials offer the same quality as virgin polymers. We must all ensure that the integrity of the end articles is not diminished by sub-standard recyclates and poor formulating of masterbatches for them; jeopardising the primary function of the application.

Potential challenges for using PCR and PIR for plastic packaging:

The contamination from an unintended use by the consumer
Cross-contamination from other packages, as well as from contaminated equipment along the recycling stream.
The processing of materials with different compositions, causing premature degradation and stability issues that become prominent after multiple cycles of use

As the use of sustainable plastic increases, so does the need for safe colourants for plastics. Providing colourants and additives for sustainable plastics articles, requires a superior technical expertise of the properties and materials which can be used to formulate with.

How the Prisma Group can help

We are a the forefront of formulating high quality colour and additive masterbatches for recycled plastics, and have the technical capability to supply the best suited colourants for all polymeric applications. Our speciality additive masterbatches can provide recyclates with performance enhancing functional capabilities, ensuring your products not only look good now but stay looking good!

Always looking to improve our offers for the industry, The Prisma Group has been working on improved and more cost-effective ways of providing NIR reflective routes to colouring plastic articles for our customers. These masterbatches are designed to reflect specific wavelengths in the NIR spectrum. We test the formulations in house, ensuring that they will reflect near Infra-Red light and enable sorting streams to recycle effectively, minimising the chance of cross contamination.

For the safest and most cost effective route to achieve your sustainable end products, contact us today.