NEWS
Trex expands in plastic film recycling
WPC decking manufacturer Trex is to expand its efforts to recycle plastic film – a key raw material for its products.
It has launched the NexTrex
Grassroots Movement, in which local authorities, universities and other qualifying businesses will become ‘drop-off’ locations to recycle polyeth- ylene film. This is an expansion of an existing programme – a network of more than 32,000 grocery stores and retail partners “Our goals are to engage more
partners, establish more recycling outlets and remove hurdles that prevent organic growth of local plastic film recycling initiatives,” said Stephanie Hicks, materials sourcing manager at Trex. The initiative expands beyond traditional grocery stores and retail
drop-off locations, which can be limited in their collection abilities due to store hours or capacity constraints. Organisations approved for the
NexTrex programme can earn funding by acting as drop-off points for discarded film packaging. Each partner is equipped with a baler, which is used to bundle and weigh recycled plastic. After 20-40 bales are compiled (20,000-40,000lbs of material), Trex will pick up and transport the material to one of its manufacturing facilities. “With the NexTrex programme, everyone wins,” according to Hicks. “Trex wins by sourcing valuable material. Our partners win by earning funds for their organisations. And, we are able to divert plastic waste from landfill.” �
www.trex.com
BASF strikes pyrolysis oil supply deal with Arcus
BASF is to purchase pyrolysis oil – made from mixed plastic waste – from Arcus Greencycling Technologies of Germany. Arcus will supply BASF with the oil and continue to expand its capacities, while BASF will use the oil in its production plants as a raw material for the production of its Ccycled products. “This underscores our commitment to using recycled raw materials in the chemical industry and drive the transition to a circular economy,” said Christoph Gahn, vice president of chemical recycling business & technologies at BASF. Arcus says its process demonstra- tion unit in Frankfurt is the first of its kind – on a commercial scale – in
www.filmandsheet.com Germany. Daniel Odenthal, chief operating
officer of Arcus, added: “With the guaranteed purchase of oil, Arcus can build further plants with higher capacity.” The agreement foresees the supply to rise as high as 100,000 tonnes/year of pyrolysis oil.
BASF will feed the pyrolysis oil supplied by Arcus into its production network in Ludwigshafen, as a replacement for fossil resources. The proportion of recycled raw material is allocated to products manufactured in the Verbund using a mass balance approach. BASF says this will help build its ChemCycling business. �
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www.arcus-greencycling.com
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