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Special Report

Mapping of advanced plastic waste recycling

technologies

Advanced recycling on the rise – rapid and their global capacities” aims to clear LARS KRAUSE, SREEPARNA DAS,
growth in capacities at global and up this jungle of information provid- MICHAEL CARUS & ACHIM RASCHKA
European level ing a structured overview and in-depth
dvanced recycling techno- insight. It focusses on profiling more Nova Institute, Germany
logies are developing at a fast than 130 available technologies and
Apace, with new players con- providers of advanced and especially operating plants including their specific
stantly appearing on the market, from chemical recycling solutions, as well as product yields were mapped.
start-ups to chemistry giants and every- pre- and post-processing technologies.
thing in between. New plants are being Advanced recycling technologies to
built, new capacities are being achieved, New company profiles were added complement mechanical recycling
and new partnerships are established. and all profiles were revised and Besides conventional mechani-
Due to these dynamic developments, it updated to the year 2023. For the first cal recycling and with regard to
is difficult to keep track of everything. time a comprehensive evaluation of recent discussions on the improvement
the global input and output capacities of recycling rates, a wide spectrum of
The report “Mapping of advanced was carried out for which more than advanced recycling technologies is
plastic waste recycling technologies 340 planned as well as installed and moving into focus. Mechanical recy-

Fig. 1: Full spectrum of available recycling technologies divided by their basic working principles.

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