CHEMICAL RECYCLING | INNOVATION
producer Polivouga and Nueva Pescanova, a leading Spanish seafood producer, in a packaging solution using certified circular PE from such materials.
SABIC is also involved in a project that will see
UPM Raflatac launch the world’s first packaging label materials made from SABIC certified circular polypropylene based on chemically recycled OBP. In this case, OBP is recovered by local partners of HHI, a Malaysia based recycling company. It converts OBP into a pyrolysis oil, which SABIC uses to make PP that is processed into film by Taghleef. In May, TotalEnergies and
Vanheede Environment Group signed a long-term commercial agreement for the supply of post-consumer recycled (PCR) raw material, to be used as feedstock in the production of circular polymers for durable applications.
Under this agreement,
Vanheede Polymers & Compounds will supply PCR raw material coming from its sites in France and Belgium, including Dottignies, where a new plastic waste treatment facility using innovative technology is currently under construction. In February, ExxonMobil announced its first
sale of certified circular polymers, to Berry Global which will use the polymers in production of food-grade packaging containers. ExxonMobil says initial quantities of the circular polymers is based on plastics waste processed at its advanced recycling facility in Baytown, Texas, US. The facility began operations in 2021 and has already pro- cessed more than 1,800 tonnes of waste. The company says: “The operation in Baytown will be among North America’s largest advanced
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plastic waste recycling facilities with a capacity to recycle 30,000 tpa of plastic waste when its expansion is complete later this year.” ExxonMobil also announced in February that it
and LyondellBasell had signed a memorandum with FCC Environmental Services, which runs one of the state’s largest material recovery facilities in the city of Houston, and Cyclyx. According to Dave Andrew, Vice President of New Market Develop- ment for ExxonMobil’s chemical division, the idea is to improve used plastic collection rates so FCC can sort and clean it and Cyclyx can match it to both mechanical and chemical
recycling efforts at ExxonMo- bil and LyondellBasell. Mura Technology says it is pioneering a globally scalable technology to prevent millions of tonnes of plastic and CO2
from
entering our natural environ- ment every year and turning an $80bn lost resource of plastic waste into a valuable global commodity.
Mura’s proprietary technology, HydroPRS
(Hydrothermal Plastic Recycling System) uses supercritical steam to convert post-consumer household waste plastics, including flexible and multi-layered plastic packaging, into industry- ready, liquid hydrocarbon products. HydroPRS differs from pyrolysis in that heat is applied to the water and not directly to the plastic, which avoids creating ‘char’ and this maximises hydrocarbon product yield, whist hydrogen donation helps to reduce reactivity and excess cracking. Mura Technology is developing a project pipeline including own-developed sites in the UK, Europe and the USA, and HydroPRS licence sales through its partner, KBR. The first site to use the
Left: SABIC chemically recycled PE is used in seafood packaging for Nueva Pescanova
IMAGE: SABIC
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