BASF Claims Recycling Breakthrough
The Colors & Effects brand of BASF said it has attained United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) compli- ance to use its Sicopal Black K 0098 FK color additive into food-contact applications. The Ludwigshafen,Germany-based company said the FDA compliance for Sicopal Black, which was launched earlier in 2020, joins its status in earning European Union food contact approval in April. Back In Black BASF said the product’s new FDA compliance “makes it one of the first recyclable black pigments broadly rec- ognized for use in food contact applications. The product thereby expands possibilities for recyclable black plastics materials such as food and cosmetic packaging, which up until now have gone to landfills or incineration.” “Until recently, black plastic packaging was considered unrecyclable due to coloration with carbon black pigment. Even trace amounts of carbon black are undetectable by [scrap] sorting machines, and [can] disrupt the scrap sort- ing process at materials recycling facilities,” said the com- pany. By replacing carbon black with near-infrared- (NIR-) re- flective Sicopal Black, black plastic items can be detected in the sorting process and then recycled, said BASF.
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