NEWS
DecaBDE proposal threatens ELV and WEEE plastics
A proposal to limit decaBDE flame retardant which the European Parliament has raised, that has no deroga- tion for products made with recyclate, could wreck the European plastics recycling industry’s efforts in automo- tive recycling and e-waste. The European Recycling Industries Assocation (EuRIC) hit back at the proposed concentration limit equal to or below 10mg/kg, or 10 ppm, for decaBDE in all articles, including those made from plastics recyclate. It said: “Recycling plastics
from WEEE or ELVs in Europe will come to an end: producing recycled plastics containing less than 10 mg/ kg of decaBDE is not
Fimic filter
at Aaron US plastics recycler Aaron Industries has bought a new melt filtration system from Fimic of Italy. Zimmer America
Recycling Solutions, which is Fimic’s sales and service representative in North America, installed a new RAS500 melt filter to process post-consum- er PP at Aaron’s facility in Leominster, Massachu- setts. The filter was installed
in April and is processing 2,000 lb/h of PP. �
www.fimic.it �
www.zars-usa.com
www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com
technically feasible at industrial scale, even for the best performing operators with whom EuRIC is work- ing. This would effectively halt companies which invested heavily in the development of innovative sorting process, while bringing no added benefit
to the protection of human health or the environment.” WEEE recycler Müller-
Guttenbrunn Group said old CRT monitor housings can contain as much as 150,000 ppm brominated flame retardants. MGG Polymers is able to recycle e-waste using state-of-the-art separation
Gunther Panowitz, Managing Director of MGG’s e-waste facility in Metran, Austria
technology so that the recycled plastics do not contain more than 1,000 ppm of these flame retard- ants. It said the proposal’s “unrealistic limit values… is neither substantiated nor feasible by scientific studies”. The proposal was made to the European Commis- sion as part of its recasting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Regula- tion. EuRIC said that work related to decaBDE is still ongoing under the Stock- holm and Basel Conventions and said it strongly recom- mends to wait until the end of the whole process at UN level to include decaBDE in the EU POP Regulation. �
www.euric-aisbl.eu �
www.mgg-recycling.com
Mondi tests support APK’s Newcycling process
Mondi said it has conducted successful preliminary tests in a pilot plant in Gronau, Germany on the suitability of recycled LDPE from technol- ogy company APK for use in multilayer films. The packag- ing group said the project, which involved Henkel and Borealis, “aims to significant- ly improve the sustainability of plastic multi-layer flexible packaging”. APK’s Newcycling technology is a solvent- based process which enables the recovery of high-quality, clean materials
Tests targeted multilayer packaging
from complex multi-layer packaging. The company says the pelletised recyclate has properties similar to those of comparable virgin plastics.
In the project, LDPE virgin
material previously used in flexible detergent packag- ing was largely replaced by APK’s LDPE recyclate. Mondi said it used the reclaimed material in the coextrusion and lamination of PE film
with printed PET film to form a composite duplex structure, while maintaining the external appearance of the detergent bag. �
www.mondigroup.com �
www.apk-ag.de
July/August 2018 | PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD 7
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