{"id":15696,"date":"2024-05-17T11:17:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T09:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interzero.pl\/about-company\/sustainable-development\/sustainability-magazine\/chemical-recycling\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:08:58","slug":"chemical-recycling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/interzero.pl\/en\/about-company\/sustainable-development\/sustainability-magazine\/chemical-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image media=”14658″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”173163″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”681493″]Currently, the only option for mixed plastic waste that cannot be mechanically recycled is usually incineration. To keep these raw materials in circulation, recycling companies, the petrochemical industry and plastics manufacturers are working together to expand chemical recycling. This has potential: “Chemical recycling can handle material flows that cannot be recycled mechanically – and thus save resources and avoid waste incineration,” says Dr. Markus Hiebel, head of sustainability and participation at the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy. environment, safety and energy technology UMSICHT.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”127489″]Focus on mixed plastics<\/strong><\/p>\n Each year, Interzero processes over 800,000 tons of lightweight yellow bag and yellow bin packaging. About half of them are mechanically recycled and used, for example, to produce regranulates for the plastics industry. One fourth is waste after sorting, including “inappropriate waste” that should not go into the yellow bin. The remaining 25 percent are mixed plastics that cannot be clearly assigned to sorting fractions and were previously thermally recycled. Interzero has developed a new sorting process specifically for this mix of materials. “While our previous sorting systems were targeted at monomaterials such as PE and PP, we are using new technology to generate plastic streams that are precisely tailored to our partners’ chemical recycling processes,” explains Dr. Richard von Goetze, director of… chemical recycling at Interzero.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image media=”14682″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”100620″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”869824″]Production start in Walld\u00fcrn planned for 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n