CONTAMINATION A MAJOR CHALLENGE FOR RECYCLING SAY EUROPEAN SUSTAINABLE PLASTICS INNOVATORS
January 1st, 2020
WITH demand for plastic recycling soaring like never before, European plastics companies have told Sustainable Plastics how they use innovation and expertise to maximise are environmental efficiency and output yields. “You’d be amazed what dirt we find in pure product waste,” Jack Snijders, director of Germany’s CIFRA Recycling GmbH, told reporters during a plant visit.
Snijders was showing an extruder machine that filters granulated used soft polyvinyl chloride (PVC) for impurities. The Neukirchen-Vluyn plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, only handles used ...
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