According to EU Directive 2019/904, by July 2024, for single-use plastic beverage containers with a capacity of up to 3L and with a plastic cap, the cap must be attached to the container.
Bottle caps are easily overlooked in life, but their impact on the environment cannot be underestimated. According to statistics, every September, the Ocean Conservancy organizes beach clean-up activities in more than 100 countries. Among them, bottle caps rank fourth on the list of plastic waste collection. A large number of bottle caps discarded at will not only cause serious environmental pollution, but also threaten the safety of marine life.
The one-piece cap solution will effectively alleviate this problem. The cap of the one-piece cap packaging is fixedly connected to the bottle body. The cap will no longer be discarded at will, but will be recycled together with the bottle body as a whole bottle. After sorting and special processing, it will enter a new cycle of plastic products. . This will significantly increase the recycling of bottle caps, thereby reducing the impact on the environment and bringing considerable economic benefits
Industry insiders believe that in 2024, all plastic bottles that meet the requirements in Europe will use serial caps, the number will be very large, and the market space will be broad.
Today, more and more European plastic beverage container manufacturers are accelerating technological innovation to meet this opportunity and challenge, designing and manufacturing more product portfolios of continuous caps, some of which are innovative. The challenges posed by the transition from traditional caps to one-piece caps have led to new cap design solutions that have come to the fore.
Post time: Jul-25-2023