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and have either established their own initiatives, or are working with organizations such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation toward a target of 100 per- cent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging by no later than 2025. One factor in the sustainability of packaging relates to deinking. The quality of recovered material from recycling processes for plastic and board food pack- aging depends on whether inks and overprint var- nishes used to decorate and label the packaging can be completely removed. The success in removing these inks varies significantly between paper and board waste and plastic waste. Growth Of Water-Based And UV/EB Inks Water-based and UV/EB inks have shown the high- est growth rates in the printed food packaging mar- ket over the past five years, as printers in all geographic regions have been subjected to environ- mental regulations on VOC emissions and wastes from their production processes. These two ink types continue to exhibit the fastest growth rates up to 2023. Water-based inks have longer drying times than sol-
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