♻️🌱 Plastics Processing and Recycling - Rolbatch Academy - Webinars & Online Trainings
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Mechanical or chemical recycling? That is the wrong question
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Asking "mechanical or chemical recycling?" puts the debate on the wrong level. No single technology is suitable for every polymer and every waste stream. Mechanical recycling generally preserves the greatest value in clean, homogeneous materials. Dissolution, depolymerisation, pyrolysis and gasification have different mechanisms, input requirements and real material yields. What matters is not the declared yield of oil or pellets, but how much waste actually returns to new polymer production, with what energy demand and product quality. These technologies should complement one another, not compete for the same feedstock.
