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RadTech: UV+EB Cured Products Rated as ‘Easier to Recycle’

RadTech commends the AF&PA on the release of a new resource for paper-based packaging designers.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

Ultraviolet and electron beam (UV+EB) cured inks have been found to cause few problems in the recycling process, according to a recent study by the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA).    The AF&PA Design Guidance for Recyclability rated UV+EB inks as not adversely impacting the recyclability of corrugated packaging, bleached paperboard cartons, recycled/unbleached boxboard coated/uncoated, carrier stock cartons unbleached Kraft paperboard, Kraft paper bags, multiwall shi...

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