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The European Recovered Paper Council (ERPC) has adopted a new assessment scheme, the deinkability scorecard, to promote the eco-design of printed products, which will ensure their recyclability and also promote sustainable production processes.
The scheme is designed to allow printers, publishers and other members of the paper value chain to identify which types of printed paper products have the best recyclability when they are deinked. Five parameters – luminosity, colour, cleanliness, ink elimination and filtrate darkening – are considered in a widely accepted standardised test, INGEDE Method 11.
Assessment of Print Product Recyclability – Deinkability Score – User's Manual
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his ERPC document provides an assessment of the deinkability of a printed product by evaluating results of a laboratory deinking test procedure.
This MS Excel table allows the calculation of the score:
Preceeding the Deinkability Scores and still valid in terms of adhesives:
Orientation Values for the Assessment of the Recyclability of Printed Products
were a first step toward a better recyclability of graphic printed products. They have been approved by a working group within the German Technical Committee Deinking. This consists of representatives of several German associations of printers, paper mills, publishers, ink and adhesive manufacturers, the International Organisation promoting the Self Adhesive Labelling Industry (FINAT) and INGEDE.
The orientation values are based on samples that have been tested for research projects. They include deinkability and adhesive applications.
The English translation of the German document can be downloaded here.
See also the INGEDE Methods.
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