Neste, a leader in renewables, has announced plans to chemically recycle 200 000 t/y of waste plastics back to chemicals feedstock. Remondis, leader in Germany in waste management, will collect plastics for recycling. Ravago, world leader in polymer distribution and...
This year’s Flame Retardants in Plastics Conference included a panel discussion on recycling, moderated by Isabel de Castro, Flame Retardants Europe, with Chris Thornton of pinfa, Karen Janssens of Campine, Rudolf Pfaendner of Fraunhofer LBF and Lein Tange of ICL-IP....
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published two Briefings on “Resource Efficiency and Waste”, one of which specifically targets plastics recycling. The Agency indicates that of 30 million t/y plastic waste generated in Europe, only 17% is collected for reuse...
The environmental NGO Zero Waste Europe has published a position paper on “chemical recycling” of plastics. The NGO’s position is that chemical recycling does have “a role to play in closing the material loop and moving … up the waste hierarchy”, but that policy...
Unlike post-industrial plastics recycling, dealing with known and homogenous materials, post consumer recycling (PCR) poses challenges because the feedstream is variable and contains a mixture of different polymers and additives, with differing processing...
