{"id":92700,"date":"2023-11-12T09:27:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T05:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/?p=92700"},"modified":"2023-11-21T12:16:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T08:46:18","slug":"recycling-technology-for-plastic-film-wins-iom3-circular-economy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/recycling-technology-for-plastic-film-wins-iom3-circular-economy-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling technology for plastic film wins IOM3 Circular Economy Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong>Baspar\/Iranpolymer\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>A pioneering recycling technology which promises the ability to recycle post-consumer plastic film has been recognised for its potential to increase the circularity of food packaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\" dir=\"ltr\">Plastic recycling consultancy Nextek has been awarded the IOM3\u2019s Circular Economy Award for\u00a0<em>COtooCLEAN<\/em>, a supercritical carbon dioxide (ScCO\u2082) cleaning process that cleans and decontaminates post-consumer polyolefin films to food-grade status.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Recycling plastic film is notoriously difficult to achieve. There is huge demand from consumers and brand owners for a technology which can be scaled to decontaminate post-consumer polyolefin films (LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE, PP) back into food-grade material.<br \/>\nThe process was recognised among other innovations, with the criteria for the award calling for technologies that enable progress towards net zero.<br \/>\nIncreasing the circularity of food-grade films,\u00a0<em>COtooCLEAN\u00a0<\/em>uses ScCO\u2082, a non-toxic, non-flammable and\u00a0non-corrosive solvent that selectively removes contaminants through the use of co-solvents.<br \/>\nThe process removes oils, inks, adhesives, labels and chemical contamination from post-consumer polyolefin films, while recycling the non-toxic solvent and separating the residues.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Partners for the\u00a0<em>COtooCLEAN\u00a0<\/em>project include:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>Viridor Ltd\u00a0a recycling, resource and waste management company, which will be the collector and recycler of films and potential plant builder for the scale up.<\/li>\n<li>Consumer goods giants Unilever, which will support the project with testing and analysis to validate the resulting materials for consumer goods packaging applications.<\/li>\n<li>Allied Bakeries<strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0one of the UK&#8217;s biggest bread makers, selling 1.6 billion loaves in the UK each year and 90% of these are packed in polyethylene. The firm will evaluate the resulting recycled material with the involvement of their packaging manufacturer and will supply films for de-inking and test recycled films for food-grade status.<\/li>\n<li>Packaging producer Amcor, which is focused on making packaging that is increasingly light-weighted, recyclable and reusable, and made using an increasing amount of recycled content.<\/li>\n<li>University of Nottingham, School of Chemistry\u00a0(Professor Steve Howdle) will conduct the majority of the optimisation research in the early work packages which will lead to scale up.<\/li>\n<li>The Biocomposites Centre (BC)\u00a0at\u00a0Bangor University, which has invested in pilot-scale CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0equipment, will focus on LCA and process optimisation.<\/li>\n<li>Suprex,\u00a0a joint venture between\u00a0Phytovation Ltd\u00a0and\u00a0Bangor University, which specialises in the development of applications of supercritical CO<sub>2<\/sub>, will take a lead in equipment design and safe operation and construction and assist in large scale trials of the post-consumer films.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><em>interplasinsights<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baspar\/Iranpolymer\u00a0 A pioneering recycling technology which promises the ability to recycle post-consumer plastic film has been recognised for its potential to increase the circularity of food packaging. Plastic recycling consultancy Nextek has been awarded the IOM3\u2019s Circular Economy Award for\u00a0COtooCLEAN, a supercritical carbon dioxide (ScCO\u2082) cleaning process that cleans and decontaminates post-consumer polyolefin films to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":92701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31004,69],"tags":[51202,51198,51199,51203,1552,1021,1300,51196,51200,1547,51195,51197,51201],"class_list":["post-92700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news-en","tag-circular-economy-award","tag-cotooclean-project","tag-food-grade-films","tag-iom3","tag-ldpe","tag-packaging","tag-polyethylene","tag-post-consumer-films","tag-post-consumer-polyolefin-films","tag-recyclable","tag-recycle-post-consumer-plastic-film","tag-recycled-films","tag-recycling-plastic-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polymervapooshesh.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}