| abstract |
The present invention provides, without the drawbacks accompanied by the use of hot melt adhesives, an attractive, easily recycled labelled container (8), and a method of making same. The container has a solid polymer label (10) on its underside (22) that is adjacent the container when applied, which is provided with a finite area (65) on its leading edge (25) and a finite area (66) on its trailing edge (27), by applying thereto a solvent for the polymer in each of the finite areas, the finite areas (65, 66) comprising a viscous tacky solution of the polymer in the solvent, the solidifying solution being sufficient to tack and bond the lavel (10) to container (8) during wrapping. After the label is wrapped around the container, the bond between the container and label becomes weaker as the solidifying solution hardens so that later the label (10) can be easily and cleanly stripped from the container (8) for recycling. The label can be a co-extruded plastics label having a first solid polymer layer (20) and another solid polymer layer, the finite areas (65, 66) being applied to the first solid polymer layer (20). |