Leaching of aluminium from post-consumer beverage packaging residual PolyAl using biogenic organic acids : Towards low-cost, sustainable recycling
Plastic packaging provides enormous benefits for preservation and transportation of food and beverage products. However, recycling the multilayered packaging materials represents a challenge due to the complexity of separating the components making up the different layers. The drinks packaging, having aluminium (Al) as a light barrier placed between polyethylene layers inside the paperboard carton
