{"id":11388,"date":"2026-03-20T10:45:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/plantas\/light-packaging\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:14:59","slug":"light-packaging","status":"publish","type":"plantas","link":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/en\/mbt\/plants\/mrf-light-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Light packaging"},"featured_media":11590,"template":"","tipo-tratamiento":[155],"class_list":["post-11388","plantas","type-plantas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipo-tratamiento-mbt"],"meta_box":{"plantas_initials":"MRF","plantas_description":"The main objective of lightweight packaging sorting and selection plants is the recovery of recyclable materials and the reduction of rejects sent to landfills. These facilities, as in the case of mechanical pretreatment of municipal waste, can be fully automatic, semi-automatic, or manual. 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Bianna designs and manufactures the main equipment for these facilities (bag openers, ballistic separators, trommels, pneumatic material collection systems, conveyor belts, bottle piercers, etc.) and integrates the best available optical separation technologies, or screening, glass separation, and magnetic and inductive separation technologies. Or, if the project requires it, SRF production lines for optimal process efficiency.  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Simultaneously, Automatic Aspiration Systems extract all LDPE plastic (film) from the material drops. <\/li>\n \t<li><strong>Final Conditioning:<\/strong> by-products such as plastic bottles pass through our Bottle Piercer, which removes the internal air by means of a cut, thus ensuring perfect pressing and baling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>"}],"plantas_input_image":[{"width":150,"height":86,"file":"envases-ligeros-scaled.jpg","filesize":62590,"sizes":{"image-480":{"file":"envases-ligeros-480x274.jpg","width":480,"height":274,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":5285,"url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-480x274.jpg"},"image-720":{"file":"envases-ligeros-720x411.jpg","width":720,"height":411,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":9290,"url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-720x411.jpg"},"image-960":{"file":"envases-ligeros-960x549.jpg","width":960,"height":549,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":14076,"url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-960x549.jpg"},"image-1250":{"file":"envases-ligeros-1250x714.jpg","width":1250,"height":714,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":20922,"url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-1250x714.jpg"},"image-1920":{"file":"envases-ligeros-1920x1097.jpg","width":1920,"height":1097,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":39885,"url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-1920x1097.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]},"original_image":"envases-ligeros.jpg","ID":"2291","name":"envases-ligeros-scaled.jpg","path":"\/var\/www\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-scaled.jpg","url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-scaled.jpg","full_url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-scaled.jpg","title":"envases-ligeros","caption":"","description":"","alt":"Envases ligeros","srcset":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-480x274.jpg 480w, https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-720x411.jpg 720w, https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-960x549.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-1250x714.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/envases-ligeros-1920x1097.jpg 1920w"}],"plantas_input_text":"<h3>Type of waste entering the plant<\/h3>\n<p>This type of plant treats waste from source-separated collection systems, mainly composed of mass-consumption packaging. The input flow integrates highly valuable materials such as polymers (PET, HDPE, LDPE, and PP) and beverage cartons. Likewise, the waste includes a significant presence of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, along with paper and cardboard fractions. These are materials that require precise separation to guarantee purity levels that allow their reintroduction into the production cycle.   <\/p>\n","plantas_output_image":[{"width":150,"height":86,"file":"polimeros.jpeg","filesize":65230,"sizes":{"image-480":{"file":"polimeros-480x275.jpeg","width":480,"height":275,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":11691,"url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros-480x275.jpeg"},"image-720":{"file":"polimeros-720x412.jpeg","width":720,"height":412,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":22277,"url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros-720x412.jpeg"},"image-960":{"file":"polimeros-960x549.jpeg","width":960,"height":549,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":35320,"url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros-960x549.jpeg"},"image-1250":{"file":"polimeros-1250x715.jpeg","width":1250,"height":715,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":53216,"url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros-1250x715.jpeg"},"image-1920":{"file":"polimeros-1920x1099.jpeg","width":1920,"height":1099,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":100750,"url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros-1920x1099.jpeg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]},"ID":"10860","name":"polimeros.jpeg","path":"\/var\/www\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros.jpeg","url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros.jpeg","full_url":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros.jpeg","title":"polimeros","caption":"","description":"","alt":"Pol\u00edmeros","srcset":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros.jpeg 2544w, https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros-480x275.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros-720x412.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros-960x549.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros-1250x715.jpeg 1250w, https:\/\/bianna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/polimeros-1920x1099.jpeg 1920w"}],"plantas_output_text":"<h3>Recoverable materials obtained<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Polymers: PET, HDPE, LDPE, PP, single-dose, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Beverage cartons<\/li>\n<li>Ferrous and non-ferrous metals<\/li>\n<li>Paper, cardboard<\/li>\n<li>SRF<\/li>\n<li>Reject<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","planta_gallery":[{"planta_gallery_photo":["2095"]},{"planta_gallery_photo":["2094"]},{"planta_gallery_photo":["2085"]},{"planta_gallery_photo":["2086"]},{"planta_gallery_photo":["2089"]},{"planta_gallery_photo":["2091"]}],"planta__main-diagram":[],"plantas_video":[],"plantas_video-secondary":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wdclvZyP6x0","plantas-ways2_to":[],"plantas-equipos_to":[11523,11477,11464,11454,11436,11547]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plantas\/11388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plantas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plantas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tipo-tratamiento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bianna.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-tratamiento?post=11388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}