CircuPlast - Assessment of a Novel Process Technology to Enable a Circular Approach to the Management of Plastics Packaging Waste

这个项目将寻求评估和验证一种新的工艺技术，该技术将寻求提高塑料包装废物的回收率和增加塑料包装的可回收含量，同时防止塑料废物排放到环境中。我们的超临界水(SCW)技术以水为绿色溶剂，旨在使塑料(PP、PE、LDPE、HDPE和层压材料)能够不分青红皂白地回收为主要塑料制造的化学原料，抵消塑料生产对化石石油衍生品的需求。因此，该项目将寻求评估我们的超临界水对塑料回收的适用性，使一个商业规模的工厂的初步设计能够完成。并允许对资本和运营成本进行审查。该项目还将寻求确定如何将这项新技术部署在废塑料包装供应链中，实现塑料的高效回收，同时为主要塑料制造商提供可持续的化学原料来源。除了帮助解决与环境中的塑料有关的充分记录的问题外，该项目还将寻求以真正的循环经济方法来管理废塑料包装。

This project will seek to assess and validate a novel process technology that will seek to enhance plastics packaging waste recycling rates and increase the recycled content of plastics packaging, whilst preventing the release of plastics waste into the environment.Using water as a green solvent, our super critical water (SCW) technology aims to enable the indiscriminate recycling of plastics (PP, PE, LDPE, HDPE and laminates) into a chemical feedstock for primary plastics manufacture, offsetting the requirement for fossil-oil derivatives for plastics production.This project will therefore seek to assess the applicability of our SCW for plastics recycling, enabling the preliminary design of a commercial scale plant to be completed, and enabling a review of both capital and operational costs. The project will also seek to identify how this novel technology can be deployed within the waste plastics packaging supply chain, enabling highly efficient recycling of plastics whilst providing a sustainable source of chemical feedstock for primary plastics manufacture.As well as helping to address the well documented issues relating to plastics in the environment, this project will also seek to enable a truly circular economy approach to the management of waste plastics packaging.