The Who's Who in Ocean-Bound Plastics

Recycling of ocean plastic (OP) and ocean-bound plastic (OBP) has received heightened attention from brands looking to sell products to well-intentioned consumers wanting to keep plastics out of the oceans. "OBP" refers to plastic that has been captured before entering the ocean and should not be co...

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Sealed Air, ExxonMobil, and Ahold Delhaize are collaborating on an initiative to recycle flexible plastic food packaging. The packaging waste will be recycled with ExxonMobil's thermal plastic-to-plastic pyrolysis technology. However, it is unclear if chemical recycling is necessary to convert the plastic waste into food-contact-grade products when the feedstock will be presorted as a separate waste stream; mechanical recycling will still be the cheaper, simpler, and less-energy-intensive option. Clients should view the news as an example of how value chain collaboration is necessary to enable novel recycling technologies, but the initiative does not demonstrate the ideal use-case for chemical recycling.
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