Sustainable Product Design: Can Caps for the TUNAP own Brand now made from PCR Material

It is important for TUNAP to make a contribution to the circular economy. Therefore, gray recycled product caps are now included in the range. But why are these caps gray now? So far we only know black and colored can caps.

The collected plastic is washed and reduced in size in the disposal center, so that colorful polypropylene (PP) flakes are created. These are melted down and processed into granules, which ultimately have a gray color. TUNAP has expressly decided to use gray recyclate for three reasons:

• The gray cap shows the least color deviations and therefore goes very well with the design of all TUNAP own-brand cans.
• By not using dyes for coloring, TUNAP saves additional resources.
• The main argument in favor of the gray color, however, is its recyclability: black plastics are difficult or impossible to recycle during the sorting process in the disposal center. They therefore mostly end up in what is known as thermal recycling, i.e. they are incinerated and therefore do not contribute to the circular economy.