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CIRCULAR ECONOMY
LyondellBasell jv starts operations at plastic waste

sorting and recycling facility in Germany

Source One Plastics, a joint venture
between Germany’s 23 Oaks Invest-
ments and LyondellBasell, has success-
fully started up its plastic waste sorting
and recycling facility in Eicklingen,
Germany.

The new unit processes difficult to
recycle post-consumer plastic waste
such as mixed plastic packaging and
flexible polyolefins materials that
would otherwise be sent mostly to
incineration. The facility’s expected
processing capacity is 70,000 metric
tons per annum.

The new plant will use an innova- advanced recycling plant that Lyon- Low Carbon Solutions. Mr. Kai Hoyer,
tive dry processing method to reduce dellBasell will build at its Wesseling, owner of 23 Oaks Investments, added,
energy consumption by up to thirty Germany, site. “With the Source One Plastics plant,
percent compared to conventional we are inaugurating another ecologi-
plastic recycling technologies. “This state-of-the-art advanced cally and economically attractive
sorting facility will turn post-consu- solution for upcycling post-consumer
The system is designed to minimise mer mixed plastic waste into feedstock plastic waste. With the help of AI
the occurrence of fine plastic dust and for our integrated hub in Cologne technology, our system will detect and
its release into the environment. The area. There, we will use cutting-edge sort material composites with product-
plant is powered by locally generated technologies to close the loop of specific accuracy.
renewable energy. The plastic waste plastic materials and create sustainable
processed in Eicklingen will provide solutions for society,” informed Ms. We have thus laid the foundations
a material part of the feedstock for Yvonne van der Laan, LyondellBasell for true closed loops, the supreme dis-
the first commercial-scale catalytic Executive Vice President, Circular and cipline of the circular economy.”

REDUCING EMISSIONS
CycleØ’s Danish acquisition to help offer fully circular

biomethane

CycleØ, a London-headquartered natural gas (RNG) projects in Europe
biomethane platform, and a port- and Latin America.
folio company of Ara Partners, has
announced the acquisition of Biogas- The acquisition will enable more
clean, a leading Danish supplier of efficient and fully circular green gas
biological methanation and desulphu- solutions by capturing the biogenic CO
2
risation systems. CycleØ develops, contained in biogas and converting it
builds, owns and operates renewable into e-methane - a sustainable, synthetic

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