Commercial-scale demonstration of RT7000 distributed chemical recycling machine converting plastic packaging waste into oil that can be used as raw material for making new plastics.

塑料是一种具有许多有益应用的材料; 2017年全球塑料产量达到3.88亿吨，预计到2050年将超过1Bt。目前，45%的新塑料用于短生命周期的一次性应用（麦肯锡），只有12%的报废塑料被回收利用。预计到2050年，回收率不会超过60%。按照目前的增长速度，预计到2050年，海洋中的塑料将比鱼类还多（Ellen麦克阿瑟，2016）。回收技术有限公司（RT）开发了一种创新工艺，利用热裂解回收各种传统方法无法回收的塑料废物。该工艺被集成到模块化机器RT 7000中，该机器设计用于处理7000吨/年难以回收的混合塑料废物，生产5200吨/年的新型有价值的烃油Plaxx（r），该烃油具有多种用途，包括在塑料生产中替代原油，使塑料可以无限次回收。RT的长期目标是处理混合塑料废物，无论其类型如何，污染物或来源，并创建循环经济解决方案。该项目将与全球领先的可再生柴油和喷气燃料供应商、全球100强中排名第三的最具可持续性公司雀巢以及全球最大的快速消费品公司之一联合利华合作，展示如何将难以回收的塑料（HTRP）回收为原料，用于原始质量的包装，从而表明塑料生产可以是一个循环过程。该项目将：* 建立HTRP收集网络 * 到2021年3月在苏格兰建造一台RT 7, 000机器，每年可处理7，000吨HTRP（约为苏格兰现有回收能力的10%）* 以精炼过程的产出和“路线图”为例，说明如何将Plaxx作为新的原始质量回收包装材料的原料返回市场。该项目至关重要，因为塑料是一种用途广泛且有价值的材料，具有许多重要应用（延长保质期，医疗感染控制，耐用品，高效运输），但塑料废物，特别是一次性物品产生的塑料废物，是当前紧迫的问题。该项目将建立回收高温热回收方案的能力，并展示如何在世界各地推广该技术，以解决这一全球性问题。

Plastic is a material with many beneficial applications; global plastic production reached 388Mt in 2017 and is expected to surpass 1Bt by 2050\. Presently 45% of new plastics are used in short life cycle, single use applications (McKinsey) and just 12% of end-of-life plastic is recycled. Recycling rates are forecast not to exceed 60% by 2050\. At current rates of growth, it is predicted that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish (Ellen MacArthur, 2016).Recycling Technologies Ltd (RT) has developed an innovative process that uses thermal cracking to recycle a wide range of plastic waste that cannot be recycled by conventional methods. The process is incorporated into a modular machine, the RT7000, designed to process 7000tpa of hard-to-recycle mixed plastic waste, producing 5200tpa of a new valuable hydrocarbon oil, Plaxx(r), which has multiple uses including replacing crude oil in plastics production, allowing plastic to be recycled an unlimited number of times.RT's long-term aim is to process mixed plastic waste regardless of type, contaminant or origin and create a circular economy solution. Working together with Neste, the world's leading provider of renewable diesel and jet fuel and the 3rd most sustainable company on the Global 100 list, and Unilever, one the largest fast-moving consumer goods companies in the world, the project will demonstrate how hard-to-recycle plastics (HTRPs) can be recycled into feedstock for virgin-quality packaging, thereby showing that plastic production can be a circular process. The project will:* Establish a collection network for HTRPs* Build an RT7000 machine in Scotland by March 2021 with a capacity of 7,000 tonnes per year (roughly 10% of Scotland's existing recycling capacity) of HTRPs* Take the output from the refining process and "road map" how the Plaxx can be returned to the market as a feedstock for new, virgin quality recycled packaging material.This project is critical because plastic is a highly versatile and valuable material with many important applications (prolonging shelf life, medical infection control, durable goods, efficient transport) but plastic waste, especially that generated by single use items, is a current and urgent problem. This project will build capacity for recycling HTRPs and demonstrate how the technology can be rolled out around the world to address this global problem.