Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, according to a surprising study released by France's food safety agency Friday.
If the scratches are invisible to the naked eye, then there is nothing that can be done on the manufacturing line, there is going to be too much random variation to fix that. The option would have to be getting rid of any plastic altogether in the design room, which likely would shorten the length of product shelf life to an unacceptable degree for these products.
If this is the same data I saw from another article the researchers showed that cleaning the caps with compressed air before putting them on bottles reduced the plastic by a large margin.
All of these factory spaces have metrology departments for confirming product specifications are in spec, who are likely to have training and expertise in defect isolation (as in finding where a defect is coming from). I have very little doubt that they would be able to create/purchase the necessary tools for checking for microplastic dispersion within the factory floor and isolating the key locations that need fixing. That is, if regulations started requiring and testing for lower microplastic content.
If the scratches are invisible to the naked eye, then there is nothing that can be done on the manufacturing line, there is going to be too much random variation to fix that. The option would have to be getting rid of any plastic altogether in the design room, which likely would shorten the length of product shelf life to an unacceptable degree for these products.
If this is the same data I saw from another article the researchers showed that cleaning the caps with compressed air before putting them on bottles reduced the plastic by a large margin.
All of these factory spaces have metrology departments for confirming product specifications are in spec, who are likely to have training and expertise in defect isolation (as in finding where a defect is coming from). I have very little doubt that they would be able to create/purchase the necessary tools for checking for microplastic dispersion within the factory floor and isolating the key locations that need fixing. That is, if regulations started requiring and testing for lower microplastic content.