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Waste into starting materials: Solvent-based recycling for the polymer industry

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Internal view of a processing plant in Germany where solvent-based recycling of plastic polymers promises to reduce the plastic waste streams and recycle contaminated plastics back into usable plastic granules.

Polymer manufacturing is an essential business, but it poses a number of challenges from an environmental perspective. Many chemical processes are energy intensive as they require high temperatures or pressure to occur. Finding ways of reusing and recycling waste into valuable components is therefore incredibly important. At APK AG in Germany, the team around Dominik Triebert and Hagen Hanel has […]

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