Innovative breakthroughs in plastic recycling technology promote new developments in the circular economy.

Recently, an environmental technology company based in Europe announced the successful development of a new plastic recycling technology that can convert mixed plastic waste into high-quality recycled plastic pellets, marking a significant breakthrough in the field of plastic circular economy. This innovative technology not only greatly improves plastic recycling efficiency but also effectively addresses the challenges of plastic sorting and the low quality of recycled plastics encountered in traditional recycling processes, providing new solutions for global plastic pollution management and resource recycling.

It is reported that this new plastic recycling technology employs an advanced method that combines chemical recycling and physical separation, enabling precise identification and separation of mixed plastics at the molecular level. This avoids the issue of degraded quality of recycled plastics caused by mixed plastic types in traditional recycling methods. The technology transforms plastic waste into an intermediate liquid substance through a specific chemical process, then removes impurities using precise separation techniques, and finally generates high-purity, high-performance recycled plastic pellets by optimizing polymerization reaction conditions.

The development of this technology took three years, during which countless experiments and optimizations were conducted, ultimately achieving the transition from laboratory to industrial production. Compared to traditional plastic recycling, the new technology not only improves recycling efficiency by over 30%, but also ensures that the quality of recycled plastics meets the standards of virgin plastics, making it widely applicable in various fields such as packaging, construction, and automotive, significantly broadening the market application range of recycled plastics.

In addition, this technology also features environmentally friendly and energy-saving characteristics, with low energy consumption and minimal emissions throughout the recycling process, aligning with the global trend towards green and low-carbon development. The company stated that it will further expand production scale in the future and seek to collaborate with domestic and international partners to promote the commercialization of the technology, committed to building a global plastic circular economy system and contributing to sustainable development goals.

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