New routes for post-consumer recycled polystyrene
Total explores the circular economy
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“Polystyrene is one of the easiest polymers to recycle,” explains Jean Viallefont, Vice President Polymer Europe. “Our success highlights that polystyrene, which naturally provides outstanding performance for various applications, will be a significant contributor to the Circular Economy. It is unquestionably an innovative way to enlarge the accessible market for recycled polystyrene and to convert a large volume of post-consumer waste.”
Based on this encouraging result, Total is launching new developments to manage contamination of recycled streams. The objective is to create a robust process in order to handle complex polystyrene waste streams that can be implemented on our different existing production lines.
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