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Photo: Anthony Delanoix

1) heavily printed film before the deinking process, 2) Film after the deinking process, 3) Regranulate after the extrusion process Photo: EREMA

An illustration of the process for recovering zinc

Michael Heitzinger (Managing Director, Uremia) Christoph Wöss (Business Development Manager EREMA Group GmbH) and Patrich Rachinger (Product Group Manager, Erema) at the site of the new customer centre, where a VACUNITE system for material test runs is being installed. Photo: Erema

The new production halls of Starlinger in Schwerin, Germany. Photo: Starlinger

Material loops are also being closed by renewable raw materials. One example is the Rambutan program, which sources high-quality active ingredients from previously unutilized plant parts. BASF researchers discovered that active ingredients from the leaves, peel and seeds of the rambutan fruit have positive effects on skin and hair. In order to sustainably source the cosmetic ingredients, the company’s Rambutan program has established a socially and environmentally responsible supply chain with local partners in Vietnam and initiated the cultivation of the first two organically certified rambutan gardens in Vietnam.

In BASF’s ChemCycling project, plastic waste is transformed into pyrolysis oil using a thermochemical process. The oil can be fed in the BASF Verbund, replacing fossil resources. Using a mass balance approach, new products are manufactured with it. These have the same properties as products from fossil raw materials. BASF works together with partners such as Quantafuel, a start-up headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Quantafuel is specialized in the pyrolysis of mixed plastic waste and the integrated purification of the resulting oil.Rasmus Kærsgaard (left), Plant Director, Quantafuel, and Dr. Michael Bachtler (right), who is working on BASF’s ChemCyclingTM project, in Quantafuel’s pyrolysis and purification plant in Skive, Denmark. Photo: BASF