Alternatives to Feedstock Recycling

ICI has also developed a PU recycling process for all MDI flexible PU foam slabstock. With their parmer Vergier, they have established a UK 1 million pilot plant facility, aiming to move to commercial scale 5,000 tpa operation in 3 to 5 years after 1998. However, no information is available at this stage on plant at a commercial scale (131). 

Obviously, there are more traditional treatment options for plastic waste than feedstock recycling. In the next chapter I will compare the feedstock option with more traditional options, here some data are given on the latter. In this section, I will discuss the following technologies  

The last example of chemical recycling of a specific plastic is the recycling of nylon from carpets. The RECAM (recycling of carpet materials) project is one 

MSWIs (several flue gas cleaning options) Mechanical recycling  

Furthermore, Solvay have developed a process called Vinyloop , that is an intermediate between chemical and mechanical recycling and will also be discussed here. 

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