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BP Developed A New Technology For PET Plastic Waste Recycling

BP developed a new technology for PET plastic waste recycling

On November 24th, BP announced that it has developed BP Infinia, a plastic waste recycling technology that allows currently unrecoverable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste from landfills or incinerators. Transfer it out and convert it into a plastic material.


BP plans to invest $25 million in a pilot plant to prove the technology before it is fully commercialized.


It is reported that PET is the most commonly used plastic in beverage and hard food packaging. About 27 million tons of PET are used in the world, and most of them (about 23 million tons) are used to make bottles.


Although PET is one of the most widely recycled plastics, less than 60% of the PET collected for bottles can be recycled, and only 6% of the total can be reused to make bottles. The rest is either “downgraded recycling”, where the product is recycled and reused before being converted into waste, or transported to landfills or incinerated.


BP Infinia technology is designed to convert difficult-to-recycle PET plastic waste, such as black food trays and colored bottles, into recycled raw materials that are interchangeable with traditional hydrocarbon resources. These recycled materials can then be used to make new PET packaging that is recycled, which reduces the need for down-cycle


BP's new pilot plant is located at the R&D Center in Naperville, Ill. It is expected to be operational by the end of 2020 to continually validate the technology.


BP is expected to develop the potential of several large commercial plants on a global scale. If deployed on a large scale, BP estimates that the technology has the potential to prevent billions of PET bottles and pallets from being eventually landfilled or incinerated each year.



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