However, the technology used in Extremus Eco Nano ensures that as well as having 30% recycled content, the film is so consistent that we can still guarantee that it will stretch by at least 250% – that means that 1m of film off the roll will become 3.5m of film by the time it’s been through the prestretch rollers on the machine – applied to the pallet at about 3-5 microns thick on the pallet – far outperforming any traditional virgin machine film in terms of performance and sustainability. Not only that, but it will provide impressive load stability, as the film is fully optimised, meaning that all the stretch has been taken out of it, so the pallet will stay rock solid. If you take all of the stretch out of the film, you are basically removing any opportunity for movement on the pallet as it bumps around in the back of a wagon/ship/horse-and-cart or any other mode of transport.

And then… When the pallet gets to the other end of it’s journey, and the user strips the film off the pallet – they can recycle the film in exactly the same way as they’d recycle a virgin film. The film is an LLDPE (Linear Low density Polyethylene) mix, and is a very attractive recycled material source. If you’ve got the luxury of a baler, and you can keep your clear film separate from your coloured film, then you’ll have recycling companies falling over each other to buy your bales. They then run it all through a big ‘muncher’ (not it’s technical name 😀) and turn it back into plastic pellets. These pellets in turn will be used to manufacture recycled plastic bags, pallet tops sheets, stretch wrap etc, etc. And of course the biggest advantage is that the waste is diverted from landfill/incineration or even worse sea pollution to become a useful recycled product.