CHEMICAL RECYCLING | ANALYSIS
The issue of feedstock competition is usually readily dismissed by chemical recyclers – maybe too readily, considering the JRC’s findings and our industry conversations during which mechanical recyclers mention that they are increasingly targeting bales of mixed polyolefins from material recovery facilities (MRFs). As the JRC also points out in its report, improved knowledge on feedstock composition will be crucial to improve our understand- ing of cases in which physical or chemical recycling, and mechanical recycling, may compete for similar waste feedstock. “The importance of money flows from it being a
AMI’s recycling research AMI’s research into mechanical and chemical recycling provides you with the knowledge needed for strategic decision-making in this rapidly evolving sector. Our quarterly updates of the report Chemical Recycling Global Status in particular have proved invaluable for many of our clients. For further information please email
silke.einschuetz@amiplastics.com
link between the present and the future” (quoting John Maynard Keynes) – as pointed out above, signifi- cant investments are needed to scale up chemi- cal recycling technologies. Plastics Europe reports
that its members plan to invest more than €8bn into chemical recycling by 2030, across 13 countries and 44 projects. An ambitious aim and, while the association’s statement acknowledges
that additional investments into mechanical recycling will also be required, these are not being quantified. It cannot be emphasised enough that mechanical recycling, rather than being static, is an innovative and advancing technology that also requires significant funds to achieve its full potential.
Plastics Europe states
that its members’ invest- ments are to result in the
production of 2.8m tonnes of chemically recycled plastics by 2030. This presents a slightly more optimistic outlook than the one featured in our report Chemical Recycling Global Status and relies on the plethora of planned and announced projects to come onstream before 2030. If we stay on the safe side and only account for the projects where Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) have already been made, this goal is very ambitious. Also, the figure compares
with a projected mechanical recycling output of 13,500 kt based on AMI’s report Plastics Recycling Europe 2022, which puts the two technologies’ outputs into perspective.
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