The trials were held at Tomra’s recycling facility in Germany in September, testing the efficiency of Nextek’s technology in differentiating food packaging from non-food packaging. The separation of food and non-food packaging is necessary for meeting the requirements of the UK and EU Food Standards Authorities.
Nextloopp says identifying and sorting any number of pack variants from bleach bottles to milk bottles in any plastic type is a world-first, capable of transforming the way society recycles the growing volume of single-use food packaging waste.
