Dive into our dossier on chemical recycling, an essential innovation for building a circular economy in the chemical and plastics industries. This collection highlights advanced technologies and Catalisti’s efforts to drive the transformation of waste into valuable resources, reducing environmental impact and advancing a sustainable, circular future.
Indaver Plastics2Chemicals is opening its first industrial plant for the advanced recycling of Polystyrene and Polyolefins—two families of plastics. Thanks to a self-developed technology, food packaging made from these materials will be recycled into new raw materials.
The study ‘How much can chemical recycling contribute to plastic waste recycling in Europe? An assessment using material flow analysis modeling’, co-authored by Catalisti’s Martijn Roosen, provides a critical evaluation of chemical recycling's potential to contribute to the European Union's plastic waste management and recycling goals.
Chemical recycling is a vital technology in our transition to a circular economy. In a recent interview, Catalisti Innovation Committee member Professor Kevin Van Geem from Ghent University and Annick Meerschman, Cefic Innovation Director, discuss the key role of chemical recycling in achieving a sustainable future and what is needed to develop this technology at a larger scale.
Through the DISSOLV project, INEOS Inovyn aims to strengthen Europe’s PVC recycling, with an ambition to achieve industrial-scale circular PVC (R-PVC) by 2030.
The future of the chemical industry is poised for transformation as it races toward achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. A recent evaluation by the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) sheds light on the progress, challenges, and potential pathways for this ambitious goal.
”Plastics – the fast Facts” 2024 shows 2023 preliminary global and European plastics production data. The infographic was created by Plastics Europe.
DISSOLV will drive the development for PVC waste from flooring, carpets and tarpaulin applications which cannot be recycled today, due to the presence of textile fibers and legacy additives.
The project PolyAl Circular will improve the recycling potential of PolyAl, the fraction remaining after fiber extraction from drink and food carton packaging recycling, by developing a scalable chemical recycling process. The project will support companies in incorporating more recycled PolyAl in their products and make carton packaging an even more competitive material in the circular economy.
The WATCH project seeks to improve chemical understanding of plastic waste conversion for the production of key chemicals such as short olefins, waxes, aromatics, styrene and diols. In this project, the aim is to develop, demonstrate and compare three technologies for the conversion of plastic waste to liquid energy carriers and chemicals via (catalytic) pyrolysis.
The P2PC project aspires to cope with the urgent issue of plastics waste management. The most important premise of P2PC is that by pyrolysis, plastic waste that is currently being burned or landfilled can be a source of diverse chemical building blocks, the so-called “precious chemicals”.
The main objective of the MATTER project is to develop scientific and market based criteria that can support the development of an optimal plastic waste management scheme, combining different sorting and mechanical/thermochemical recycling technologies.