Chemical Recycling

Finding Answers To The
Plastic Problem

We Are Facing A Crisis

We are in the midst of a pollution crisis caused by plastic waste in our environment. It is a huge problem that will persist for hundreds of years with microplastics now entering food chains, eco systems and water sources.

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While more countries have taken up recycling, the use of plastics has increased exponentially.

We need more innovative solutions to tackle the growing mountains of waste and stop the damage plastic is doing to our environment.

Our Solutions

At Refiniti

We have been able to develop our own unique purification technology to transform waste plastics into feedstock for the petrochemical industry via chemical recycling. We have overcome the challenges that have prevented existing industry processes from utilising pyrolysis oil to make new products.

Dirty and contaminated post-consumer waste can now be utilised to create a stable and pure hydrocarbon liquid that is suitable for all purposes, even creating food or medical grade products.

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How can we reduce our plastic waste?

At Refiniti we strongly support all options to reduce plastic waste and increase sustainability. Our goal is to create even more possibilities in the field of chemical recycling. We recognise that all avenues should be explored and some may be only a temporary solution on our journey to true sustainability. What is clear, is that we must do everything we can.

We must do better.

We Should

Reduce

We can minimise the use of plastics. If we use less, then less is wasted. However, the use of plastics is deeply entrenched, and we even depend on them. They have delivered huge benefits and are engineered to do so. Today there isn't a viable way to reduce use to zero via substitution or abstinence, without a huge impact on many lives and the environment.

Re-Use

Every time an item is re-used this will help in the goal to reduce plastics, but there are limited opportunities for many forms of plastics. Ultimately most plastics end up damaged and unfit for purpose, at which point it becomes waste.

What then?

Recycle

We can move to a circular economy. The ultimate solution is to reduce the consumption of raw materials and make new products from old plastics with minimum energy input. However, traditional mechanical recycling is not viable for the majority of plastics because of contamination and composite materials downgrading the quality of output. This is where the new field of feedstock recycling can play a part in chemically converting the plastic back to oil-based feedstocks to make new products.

Recover

For plastics, this is about destruction and conversion to energy via a form of incineration. While this does deal with the waste, it is a source of fossil derived CO2 contributing to global warming.

In some cases, it can be shown that fuels derived from plastics are less carbon intensive to traditional oil-based fuels, so it could present a stepping stone to improved sustainability and a lower carbon economy.

An Innovative Solution For A Complex Problem

A great problem for recycling is the dirty nature of waste. Multiple materials are mixed together in random quantities with residual food or other foul substance and there is no simple way to separate them.

You could spend money, time and large water resource to wash and meticulously separate all different materials, but it isn't viable on a commercial level. This is one of the major limitations for mechanical recycling.

Pyrolysis is robust process that can consume contaminated plastic waste and transform to oil. Unfortunately for pyrolysis, what goes in must come out. If a horrible mixture goes in, then a horrible mixture will come out. This contaminated oil causes great damage to chemical processes and limits any use at scale.

Our patented chemical separation technology removes the unwanted contamination from plastic pyrolysis oil to enable the chemical industry to utilise it to create circularity in the supply chain of new plastics.

In our solution we have focused on sustainable goals to minimise energy and utilise more environmentally sound chemicals. In doing so have created a highly efficient and competitive process.

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