Chemical recycling

K 2025 sees Erema launch the Agglorema generation of machines, a new recycling system specially developed for processing heavily contaminated post-consumer waste.

The Advanced Recycling Conference (ARC) 2025 takes place on November 19-20 in Cologne, Germany, and online. Researchers and industry professionals are invited to share their latest achievements by submitting abstracts by 31 July 2025 and present work to a global audience of recycling experts.

Stuttgart, June 2025 – The University of Utrecht has chosen a Coperion STS 25 Mc11 twin screw extruder for a chemical plastics recycling research project. A research group headed by Assistant Professor Dr. Ina Vollmer will undertake comprehensive investigations of the mechanical-chemical conversion of mixed plastic waste using catalysts. Thanks to its intensive mixing effect and efficient energy intake, the Coperion STS twin screw extruder will assume a central function in this promising and relatively unexplored area.

Despite impending mandates and ambitious corporate targets, chemical recycling in Europe remains nascent today, mostly due to unattractive economics. A new report published by Bain & Company revealed that the industry is worth over €400 billion in cumulative capex and cost parity with virgin plastics production could be achieved in 20–30 years. Plastics companies now have a window of opportunity to be early movers and reap material benefits.

The Advanced Recycling Conference (ARC) 2025 is setting the stage for innovation. Taking place on November 19-20 in Cologne, Germany, and online, ARC 2025 continues to be the benchmark for innovation in recycling. As the industry faces increasing pressure, ambitious EU targets and evolving market demands, ARC 2025 offers a vital platform for industry leaders, researchers, investors, and policymakers to explore practical solutions and visionary concepts.

Almost 270 delegates attended the Advanced Recycling Conference (ARC) in Cologne on 20-21 November 2024.

While the petrochemical industry touts chemical recycling as a solution to the plastic waste crisis, insiders acknowledge the technology won’t be commercially viable for another fifty years, a new paper reveals.

The gasification* of mixed waste, including plastics and non-plastics, has consistently faced various challenges.

Mechanically recycled polymers’ share of the total market is set to increase in the coming decades but penetration, defined as domestic recycling production versus total polymer demand, is likely to remain limited through to 2050.

Nextloopp Americas appoints Marcio Amazonas as Vice President to lead the recycling initiative in the Americas

Scientists around the world can now go full throttle in their research into chemical plastics recycling. Researchers at ETH Zurich have laid important foundations for this by showing that it’s all about the stirring.