On January 22, the PLAST2bCLEANED project addressed the urgent need for recycling this hazardous waste. Through a novel process, clean polymers, bromine, and antimony trioxide are safely recovered, supporting Europe’s goal for a closed-loop recycling system. The team behind it has developed what is being called a dissolution process. Instead of simply grinding plastic down into lower-quality flakes, which is often the case with standard plastic recycling, superheated solvents are used to dissolve the polymer entirely. This allows them to take the hazardous additives out of the liquid solution, leaving behind a pure, clean resin, thereby allowing it to stay in the high-end manufacturing loop indefinitely.
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