Energy from Waste GmbH (EEW) and DSD - Duales System Holding GmbH & Co. KG want to jointly develop a process for processing mixed plastics and sorting residues. The declared aim is to recover more mixed plastics and sorting residues for the raw material cycle. In future, it will then be possible to supply raw materials for the production of packaging that have been verifiably recovered from post-consumer waste.
The companies have agreed to establish a joint venture for this purpose. The two partners intend to develop a technically and economically viable process by the end of this year in order to realise a new production process in a jointly constructed and operated plant. 200,000 tonnes of plastic waste annually to be processed. The materials to be processed should be taken from the Waste streams from DSD and EEW be won.
Michael Wiener, CEO The Green Dot is convinced that this joint venture will create a solution for plastic waste that could previously only be utilised or disposed of as energy in cement works or waste incineration plants. In this way, it will be possible to offer customers an even broader range of services in the future: "We are supplementing our highly developed mechanical recycling processes with a complementary process. Completely new preparation process. The model developed as part of the joint venture also offers another option to pave the way for climate-friendly recycling for Plastic waste that is difficult to recycle to open."
Sustainable recycling: further closing the raw material cycle
For the planned processing method, for example, flat mixed plastics from the recycling bin or the Yellow Bag or Yellow Bin, plastic-containing sorting waste from the sorting of Lightweight packaging from the dual system and processing residues from the two Green Dot plastic recycling plants. EEW will separate the waste from the household waste before it is utilised for energy recovery in its plants. Sorting out plastic waste and thus make these quantities available for chemical recycling.
In a further step, a service provider will chemically recycle the plastic waste processed by the cooperation partners EEW and DSD. The process of so-called oiling, for example by means of pyrolysis, will be used. The joint venture will use the pyrolysis oil obtained as a base material for the Production of high-purity and food-grade plastics for the production of packaging to branded goods manufacturers, for example. This would give manufacturers access to a raw material that demonstrably from post-consumer waste is obtained.
"With this cooperation, companies in the field of material and energy recovery are joining forces for the first time in order to strengthen chemical recycling and thus minimise the Raw material cycle further. We will achieve this by extracting a raw material from the waste stream of mixed plastics and sorting residues as a starting point for new products. To this end, EEW will step up its recycling efforts prior to the energy recovery process and recover waste previously used for energy generation for the raw material cycle." Bernard M. KemperCEO EEW GmbH
SourceDSD - Dual System
