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Plans for chemical recycling plant in Australia make progress


Partners in a chemical recycling project are looking at potential sites in Victoria, Australia for a plastics recycling facility that would contribute to meeting the country’s plan to use an average of 50% recycled content in packaging by 2025. Partners in the project are technology developer Licella, recycler iQ Renew, supermarket chain Coles, polyolefins producer LyondellBasell and brand owner Nestlé. The proposed facility would use Licella’s


AST gets into HDPE


recycling Plastic containers, drums and bottles manufacturer AST is creating a new competence centre for HDPE recycling in Erndtebrück, Germany. The aim of the project


is to gather experience with the intention of introducing the use of recyclates in production. Ultimately, AST plans to produce recycled raw materials.


Lindner Group is AST’s technology partner, supplying washing and sorting components from Lindner Washtech and shredders from Lindner Recyclingtech. � https://ast-kanister.de � www.lindner.com


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Australian partners have developed packaging for KitKat with recycled content


Australia’s first soft plastic food wrapper with recycled content. The packaging has 30% recycled polypropylene content (using a mass balance approach). Amcor and LyondellBasell were partners in the development. The initiative to create the


Cat-HTR (Catalytic Hydro- thermal Reactor) technology which converts plastics packaging waste to an oil which can be used in the


feedstock for polymer production.


Nestlé has developed a


wrap for KitKat chocolate snacks which it says is


KitKat prototype wrap emerged from a trial on the Central Coast of New South Wales, where iQ Renew, CurbCycle and Nestlé started kerbside collection of flexible plastics. � www.licella.com.au � www.nestle.com.au


PolyREC to verify circularity


Plastics industry trade associations Petcore Europe, PlasticsEurope, Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) and VinylPlus have formed a new organisation called PolyREC to monitor, verify and report their plastics recycling and uptake data in Europe using


a common data collection system, RecoTrace. PRE president Ton Emans said: “Setting up mecha- nisms that evidence progress in driving plastic circularity in a transparent manner is a must if we are to meet the EU targets.”


Biffa expands rHDPE capacity in UK


Biffa is making a £13m investment to double HDPE recycling capacity at its plant in Washington, UK. The expansion takes total annual capacity at the plant to 39,000 tonnes, equivalent to 1.6bn bottles a year. The company also operates plastics recycling facilities in Redcar and Seaham – the latter opened last year. In the last five years Biffa has invested over £54.5m in plastics recycling infrastructure and it has plans to quadruple its plastic recycling capacity by 2030. The new investment will take Biffa’s overall plastic


recycling capacity to 155,000 tonnes per year. � www.biffa.co.uk


PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD | March/April 2021 www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com


PolyREC, he added “is a significant step towards a credible and systemic approach to genuinely improve plastic production, collection and recycling.” Other interested organisa- tions are also invited to join. � www.plasticsrecyclers.eu


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IMAGE: BIFFA


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