1:56 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Chemical recycling
Report

New European Commission study confirms chemical recycling is better than incineration of plastic waste

In Europe, about 30 million tonnes of plastic waste is collected every year. Still, 84% of that does not find its way back into new products, as most of it is incinerated, exported or sent to landfill. A mix of various technologies, including mechanical and chemical recycling, is ...
3:80 min Asia Pacific, Chemical recycling
Chemical recycling

Axens, IFPEN and JEPLAN announce the start-up operation of Rewind® PET industrial unit in Japan for the chemical recycling of PET

Axens, IFPEN and JEPLAN entered into a partnership in 2020 to develop and license an ...
1:49 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Chemical recycling
Alternative rPET application

SK chemicals, storing music in circular recycled plastics

Global record producer Sonopress develops "EcoRecord" with circular recycled PET ...
2:20 min Asia Pacific, Chemical recycling
Chemical recycling

PCG to construct Asia’s largest advanced chemical recycling plant

PCG reaches FID for the construction of an advanced chemical recycling plant in ...
1:58 min Chemical recycling, Additives
New recycling technology

Pyrowave introduces Nanopurification Technology: A revolutionary short-loop chemical recycling innovation to remove toxic additives and contaminants in plastics

On the sideline of the Chemical Recycling Europe Forum 2023, Pyrowave is proud to introduce its revolutionary Nanopurification Technology. Applied to plastic waste, this technology operates at the molecular level to remove contaminants from polymers with perfect control on purified ...
2:29 min Staple fibers, fibers, filaments, Chemical recycling
Recycling

gr3n to build in Spain – the first-of-a-kind manufacturing plant for microwave assisted depolymerization of PET in partnership with Intecsa Industrial

gr3n announced that its goal of being the world’s leading supplier of enhanced ...
3:34 min Chemical recycling
Chemical recycling

Deep tech DePoly SA rethinks recycling as it strikes CHF 12.3m seed round to scale its unique recycling technology for plastics

Over 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced every year, but less than 10% are ...
1:39 min Chemical recycling
Chemical recycling

BASF Venture Capital invests in startup DePoly SA

BASF Venture Capital GmbH (BVC), the corporate venture company of the BASF Group, ...
1:31 min Chemical recycling
Grant

Avantium awarded €1.5 million EU grant to demonstrate the electrochemical conversion of CO2 into sustainable plastic materials

Avantium announces that it has been awarded a €1.5 million grant by the EU Horizon Europe programme for its participation in the research and development programme HICCUPS1. This programme aims to demonstrate the utilisation of CO2 as a feedstock for the production of polyesters. The ...
2:14 min Chemical recycling
PET recycling

Eastman secures significant feedstock agreements for molecular recycling facility in France

Eastman announced it has secured a significant amount of feedstock needed for its planned molecular recycling facility in Port Jerome sur Seine, Normandy, France. With an investment of $1 billion, the planned facility will become the world’s largest material-to-material molecular ...