This is part of a just days ago press release and has been copied from the INEOS Styrolution website.
Keywords and phrasesrecycling, polystyrene, landfill, food contact compliancy, food and beverage containers, sustainability, holy grail, virgin-equivalent, circular solution
Internet page link
https://www.ineos-styroluti...ng-Agilyx-technology"The Holy Grail of Plastics Recycling"The remainder here is all copied text. Until it's not copied text.
Polystyrene is a unique polymer suitable for multiple advanced recycling solutions like depolymerization. Its properties make it ideal for a circular economy – even enabling
food contact compliancy of the recycled material, often considered the
holy grail of polymer recycling.
INEOS Styrolution and AmSty, two of the largest global producers of polystyrene, announce plans to construct a joint 100 ton per day facility in Channahon, Illinois, that will utilize the Agilyx advanced recycling technology to recycle post-use polystyrene products back into virgin-equivalent styrene monomer.
“Discarded single-use items like polystyrene foam cups and yogurt cups can now go right back to the same applications over and over at the same purity and performance with no need to landfill,” said Greg Fordyce, President Americas for INEOS Styrolution. “We are excited to join forces with AmSty on this ambitious project, which we expect will elevate polystyrene as a sustainable material of choice. In particular, this facility will dramatically increase recycling rates in the greater Chicago area.”
“Advanced recycling technologies are key to creating a circular economy for plastics,” said Tim Stedman, CEO of Agilyx. “Agilyx’s technology for converting waste polystyrene is proven at scale, having been operational for several years now in Oregon. This new facility in Illinois will be the largest of its type in the world, and will meet the growing demand from brand owners who want more recycled plastic, allowing them not only the possibility of recycling food grade material back to the same products but also for the upcycling of lower quality non-food grade products to meet food grade usage requirements.”
I'm hungry for two more paragraphsGood news? I've got my fingers crossed that this will presage the end of politicians and ordinary people alike kicking the nearly ubiquitous single-serve and single-use polystyrene beverage cup down the road.
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