PETproducts 54 PETplanet Insider Vol. 22 No. 10/21 www.petpla.net EC washing process opens a new way for PET bottle recycling The global PET bottle recycling rate is approximately 50%, but it still needs to be improved. With restrictions on the import and export of plastic waste in various countries around the world, the local plastic recycling model is imperative. The demand usage for recycled PET by global brands has increased, so the recycling rate of waste PET must be increased year by year. It took two years to investigate and analyse the variation tendency in global PET bottle packaging and composition of waste PET bottle bales for BoReTech. As a professional supplier of recycling equipment that has been deeply involved in the plastic recycling industry, BoReTech has proposed how to reduce the concentration of such a huge PET bottle recycling process due to the global land area is gradually decreasing, prompting to consider environmental friendliness to reduce equipment footprint and equipment production energy consumption, which responding to global energy conservation and emission reduction, and reducing carbon footprint. Compared with the traditional recycling process, the EC washing process PET bottle recycling system by BoReTech has greatly reduced land and plant investment, and at the same time, the investment in production costs and the manpower requirements are relatively reduced. For the developed countries and regions, tight land, and high labor costs, the EC washing process has signifi cant advantages. The EC washing process has 3,000kg/h and 6,000kg/h input capacity as the standard design. Compared with the same input capacity of the traditional process, the equipment land occupied will be reduced by half, and the fi nal product rPET fl akes quality is the same, which can be directly applied in bottle-to-bottle production and micro-denier fi lament production. The EC washing process adopts a modular design concept to reduce the equipment maintenance points, reduce the failure rate of equipment operation, and be conducive to the unifi cation and standardisation of spare parts. To emphasise the concept of environmental protection, the water circulation system of the EC washing process will pass through the online fi ne fi ltration system to achieve more than 50% of the water that can be reused in the washing process. At present, the EC washing process technology has been successfully developed and internal trial running. BoReTech is expecting to launch the technology on the market next year. www.bo-re-tech.com Evian unveils 100% rPET bottles created by Loop Industries’ recycling technology Evian has launched an rPET prototype bottle using technology from technology company Loop Industries. As the demand for more sustainable packaging solutions continues to grow, Loop Industries states to offer a technology that allows no and low value PET plastics that would otherwise go to waste to be recycled endlessly into new, virgin-like PET plastic. The process breaks down plastic into its base building blocks, or monomers. The monomers are then purifi ed and repolymerised into Loop PET plastic. This technology is intended to allow more plastic to be kept in use, reduces reliance on fossil fuels and avoids the creation of new plastic. The technology is claimed to enable a continuous loop for recycling at large scale, meaning that all types of PET plastic waste can be transformed into high quality plastic bottles. To bring to life this latest concept, Evian has renamed its prototype bottles to ‘Evian Loop’ to highlight each bottle’s recycling potential. Evian’s partnership with Loop Industries spans four years, during which time Loop Industries worked on perfecting its technology for commercial production on a global scale. The partnership will see this pioneering technology rolled out across markets beginning in 2022 and is part of Evian’s effort to accelerate the development of innovative sustainable packaging solutions. www.evian.com www.loopindustries.com RECYCLING
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