LyondellBasell Industries has started building a pilot plastic ##s processing plant in Italy in a step towards a goal of scaling its process system up to a commercial scale . Italy site moving another step closer to converting post-consumer plastic waste into new plastics on a commercial scale. In collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , the Netherlands - based company ’s MoReTec process uses a catalyst to accelerate the molecular breakdown of the waste during pyrolysis beyond the limits of conventional recycling processes . The company wants to take waste that is difficult to process , including multi - layered waste , and turn it into feedstock for new products .
LyondellBasell Industries has started building a pilot plastic ##s processing plant in Italy in a step towards a goal of scaling its process system up to a commercial scale . In collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , the Netherlands - based company ’s MoReTec process uses a catalyst to accelerate the molecular breakdown of the waste during pyrolysis beyond the limits of conventional recycling processes . The company wants to take waste that is difficult to process , including multi - layered waste , and turn it into feedstock for new products .