“When it comes to avoiding plastics waste, it's the clear task of our innovation to follow the basic principles of the waste hierarchy, which is in very simple words, reduce, reuse, and recycling.
There are multiple end of life options. The first is littering or landfill, which we have to avoid. A huge portion also goes to incineration, which is better than littering – but we lose the material from the stream in this linear model. It is better to close the loop. Mechanical recycling is one option and this starts with the collection and sorting of the packaging waste, but there is some volume reduction before new packaging can be made from it. For some special materials, such as PET, it is possible to obtain food grade material.”
“An alternative to this are chemical recycling technologies which we see as a long term replacement for incineration and a supplement to mechanical recycling. The material quality is basically equal to virgin material, as it's the same monomers that we use, and therefore we also have the same food grade permissions.”
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