Recycling

In a project with Audi AG, Fraunhofer IVV demonstrated how solvent-based recycling can recover high-quality PC/ABS from automotive waste.

Gasification of automotive shredder plastic with biomass lowers CO₂ emissions and creates circular feedstock for chemical production.

Circularity targets are moving recycled polymers into more automotive applications, but vehicle cabins remain among the most demanding.

As an additive in polylactide (PLA) biocomposite films, spent coffee grounds (SCG) can improve flexibility and toughness while preventing combustion.

Recycled plastics can expand in building products only when circularity meets the same requirements that govern conventional construction materials.

Regulation is reshaping plastics investment by compressing decision cycles, raising compliance costs, and redirecting capital across the value chain.

Engineers eliminate calcination emissions by encapsulating waste inside cross-linked polymers, creating load-bearing, modular blocks for rapid deployment.

Repeated washing, handling, and abrasion can damage reusable plastic packaging, reducing durability, cleanability, and practical service life.

Microorganisms metabolize polymer carbon into CO₂ or CH₄, proving actual biodegradation beyond physical or chemical degradation.

EU pellet-loss rules make spill prevention a plant operations issue, with new demands for containment, procedures, and recordkeeping.