imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Hubweg 15 74939 Zuzenhausen, Germany phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 [email protected] EDITORIAL Kay Barton Heike Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Anthony Withers WikiPETia. info [email protected] MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann [email protected] Johann Lange-Brock [email protected] phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 LAYOUT AND PREPRESS EXPRIM Werbeagentur | exprim.de Matthias Gaumann READER SERVICES [email protected] PRINT Chroma Druck Eine Unternehmung der Limberg-Druck GmbH Danziger Platz 6 67059 Ludwigshafen, Germany WWW www.hbmedia.net | www.petpla.net PETplanet Insider ISSN 1438-9459 is published 10 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (1-year subscription 149 EUR, 2-year subscription 289 EUR, Young professionals’ subscription 99 EUR. Magazines will be dispatched to you by airmail). Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. Note: The fact that product names may not be identified as trademarks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PETplanet Insider Vol. 24 No. 03/23 www.petpla.net Dear readers, The European Commission has published its Technical Report on Plastic Waste* which looks at all plastic waste streams from shredded electrical equipment and flexible plastic packaging to PET bottles and trays. It then explores mechanical, physical and chemical recycling using case studies, industry data and reference material. After 73 closely-printed pages and hundreds of illustrations, the mechanical recycling of PET packaging (bottles and trays) comes out best of all 27 plastic fractions, with 2,000 kg of CO2 savings per fraction of a tonne! You as readers and we as editors have always known this and it is encouraging that the European Commission now agrees with us. The report meanders its way through the waste mountain for another 50 pages of small print and colourful graphics. An assessment of the future highlighted in a number of scenarios is exciting. Physical and chemical recycling in particular consumes a lot of energy and with it CO2 and, as a result, will be unable to compete with mechanical recycling for many years to come. Conversely, the costs involved in mechanical recycling are reasonably stable (collection, transport, processing) while other processes are dependent on the price of energy and consequently very likely to become more and more expensive. Not even optimised reactors and plants will be able to negate major increases in prices. So, dear readers, we will still be meeting at flaking mills many years from now. Best wishes Alexander Büchler *The full report ‘Environmental and economic assessment of plastic waste recycling - A comparison of mechanical, physical, chemical recycling and energy recovery of plastic waste’ is available at https://op.europa.eu
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