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Material Recycling in a Circular Economy for Plastics – A critical Assessment

A Comparison of Physical and Chemical Plastics Recycling

Over the last 2 years we observed some confusion about available plastic recycling processes.

Chemical Recycling is an “Oxymoron” because it is a scientific fact that chemical reactions change the composition of polymers and fulfil the definition for “recovery” of the Waste Directive.

Is it really coincidence and ignorance or in fact intention, that the dissolution (solvent-based purification) for plastic waste recycling is incorrectly described and classified as chemical recycling when it is Physical Recycling?

Plastic waste not sinking in the Sea makes a major "Tragedy of the Commons" visible and hopefully triggers a change to our present way of dealing with such growing waste streams.

Why is the CreaSolv^® Process consistently incorrectly described instead of accepting that it is a Physical Recycling process that does not destroy polymer chains?

In their update “Waste & Packaging” (published November 12, 2019) Unilever informs also about their achievements in regard to the CreaSolv^® Process for sachet recycling.

In October 2019, the Greenpeace “False Solutions Report: Throwing away the future” incorrectly classifies solvent-based purification (dissolution) as chemical recycling for plastic waste.