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EU recognises more ways to recycle plastics

New perspectives on waste recycling across Europe are more encouraging for achieving the full potential from plastics waste.

Previous definitions of recycling have disregarded the potential of plastics to be split back into their chemical constituents, and their calorific value as a fuel.

PlasticsEurope has welcomed the revised EU Waste Framework Directive, which both redefines recycling to encompass mechanical and feedstock recycling and also brings more flexibility in the hierarchy of waste recovery processes.

The association notes: "The revised Waste Framework Directive states that the term 'recycling' encompasses feedstock as well as mechanical recycling.

Unlike alternative materials, plastics offer an additional level of recycling, e.g. by breaking down the polymer into its elementary chemical building blocks, such as monomers and other chemical intermediates, which can be used to either produce new materials similar to the original or for other purposes.

The 'feedstock recycling' is an integral part of many vital industrial processes, for example in the production of metals in blast furnaces or smelters.

End-of-Life plastics can be used for making synthesis gas, which then can substitute coal or oil as feedstock in these processes, where they act as a reducing agent to produce metals from ore. In the case of mixed plastic waste this can be more eco-efficient than mechanical recycling."