To make plastic packaging more sustainable, its recycling has to increase dramatically. Today, the vast majority of recycled plastics are PET bottles. Other very common plastics for food packaging, especially polyolefins, could technically be recycled but are only done so in small volumes. One of the reason for this is that the recycled materials do often not match the quality of virgin ones. Coatings or printing inks on the packaging lead to contamination of the recycled material. Although efforts in designing packaging for recycling can reduce the amount of this contaminating substances, some are inevitable. Adding an additional step to deink or decoat plastics from packaging before recycling helps to increase the quality of the recycled plastic and thus turns it into a more circular product. Although a few standard methods for plastic deinking exist, they only work for selected types of ink or coating chemistries. Especially, any crosslinked inks or coatings, as for example liquid toner inks or UV inks and coatings, are very hard to remove. To address such coatings or inks, newly adapted deinking techniques are necessary. We want to develop such new techniques to remove crosslinked inks or coatings from plastic packaging. One idea is to explore different types of mechanical actions in combination with already existing protocols. Alternatively, finding ways to break down coatings and inks chemically before removal are an attractive option. First trials to do so are currently underway. The main challenge will likely be to upscale the proposed processes. Especially the latter would require the build-up of completely new plants. Further, it is important to ensure that no small molecules, which could migrate out of the recycled plastic, are created in the process and left in the recycled material.