Dutch-based chemicals firm Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has announced a partnership with the Netherlands' LyondellBasell (KIT) to advance the recycling of plastic materials. Under the initiative, the partners will seek to develop new catalyst and process technologies to decompose plastic waste, such as packaging, and turn it into monomers that can be reused in the polymerization process. They aim to create an efficient chemical process that would enable greater levels of recycling than are possible with mechanical methods.
Dutch-based chemicals firm LyondellBasell has announced a partnership with the Netherlands' Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to advance the recycling of plastic materials. Under the initiative, the partners will seek to develop new catalyst and process technologies to decompose plastic waste, such as packaging, and turn it into monomers that can be reused in the polymerization process. They aim to create an efficient chemical process that would enable greater levels of recycling than are possible with mechanical methods.