INDUSTRY


What’s new in chemical recycling projects


The number of companies getting involved in chemical recycling of plastics waste has been growing rapidly. This article provides an update of recent developments in projects around the world involving chemical recycling of mixed waste, plus ones focussed on PS and PET


Chemical Recycling – Global Insight 2022


Announcements of new plastics chemical recycling projects have been coming out regularly in recent months, along with progress reports on previously announced projects. Most operations are set for the 2022/23 time frame. What follows is a non- exhaustive review of projects in various states of construction and operation around the world, mostly related to mixed plastics waste but also for individual polymer streams (PET and polystyrene). Plastic Energy, probably the most prominent independent technology company operating in chemical recycling, already has two commercial chemical recycling plants in operation, in Almeria and Seville, Spain. They have been running since 2015 and 2017 respectively. Each has a capacity of 5,000 tonnes/yr. The technology uses a thermal anaerobic conversion (TAC) process to produce what Plastic Energy brands as Tacoil. The Spanish facilities take waste, mostly film, collected by a waste management company that would normally send the material to landfill.


Main image: Swiss company Gr3n has


constructed a demonstration plant for its PET recycling technology


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IMAGE: GR3N


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