VTT spins out Olefy to revolutionize circular plastic recycling(vttresearch.com)
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VTT spins out Olefy to revolutionize circular plastic recycling
https://www.vttresearch.com/en/news-and-ideas/vtt-spins-out-olefy-revolutionize-circular-plastic-recycling
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Indeed that's been a huge problem to date. Here's hoping they've made actual progress: "The robust process is tolerant to contaminants in the feed. This means easier pretreatment of the feed before the Olefy processing." (from the bullet points about halfway through the article)
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The problem with pyrolysis, as far as I can tell, is that you can't just shovel garbage in there, input feeds need to be sorted and clean, so the issue of how do we deal with plastics, particularly soft plastics, at the consumer level is by no means solved. I wonder if we could introduce some partitioning system for a recycling bin, and whether anyone would be willing to use it?