3.3 Plastic Recycling in the Circular Economy

Advanced Recycling is a necessary complement to mechanical recycling to expand the lifecycle of plastics, accelerate the plastics circular economy and achieve the goal of eliminating plastic waste from our environment. Advanced Recycling extracts value from harder-to-recycle plastics by converting them into their original building blocks which are then used as feedstocks to create new virgin-quality plastics, decreasing the dependence on fossil-fuels. Hear how a commercial leader in advanced recycling has taken a unique approach to develop an end-to-end comprehensive, circular solution to return plastics to productive use and address difficult-to-recycle plastics, especially films and flexible packaging that are typically landfilled or leak into the environment. You will learn how to successfully scale a pyrolysis-based advanced recycling facility to ensure a viable, economical and energy-efficient process with minimal environmental impact.