13/12/2022
Plastic waste is filling up our landfills, waterways and rivers – or it’s being incinerated.
But not all plastics can be recycled with the current process, mechanical recycling.
UpCycle, developed by Honeywell UOP, is a new recycling process technology that can reduce the carbon footprint of plastic waste handling typically by more than 50%, compared to conventional incineration and landfilling.
Why it’s innovative: The new advanced or chemical recycling process takes plastic waste that can’t be recycled by current technology and breaks it down to a recycled polymer feedstock (RPF). The feedstock can then be used to manufacture new, high-quality plastics that can be used in food packaging, pharmaceutical products and medical devices, with the goal of enabling a circular plastics economy.
