Mechanical Recycling and Landfill

Finally, other relevant treatment options for plastics waste include landfill and mechanical recycling. Since these options (unlike Vinyloop and cement kiln incineration) are not even similar to feedstock recycling we discuss them here only very briefly. Mechanical recycling of plastics (be it PVC or other plastics), needs dedicated collection of the plastic waste in question. This is only possible for selected plastic flows (high volumes, recognisable products, products consisting mainly of one plastic). Landfill can accept plastic waste in any waste context (pure plastic type, MPW, mixed materials). I will only address the costs of these alternative technologies. 

For landfill, costs vary highly across Europe. The main reason are differences in landfill quality (a point that will be quickly become less important now that the EU Landfill directive is becoming operational) and particularly landfill tax systems. Differences between some 2 per tornie in some EU countries (for inert waste) and up to 280 per tonne in, e.g., some places in Germany, may occur (though the latter value must be regarded as exceptionally high). Technically, even in countries with unfavourable circumstances like the 

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