Commercial-scale demonstration of RT7000 distributed chemical recycling machine converting plastic packaging waste into oil that can be used as raw material for making new plastics.

RT7000分布式化学回收机的商业规模演示，将塑料包装废物转化为可用作制造新塑料原料的石油。

• 批准号: 50244
• 金额: $ 412.39万
• 依托单位: RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=50244
• 关键词: Commercial; scale; demonstration; RT7000; distributed

Plastic is a material with many beneficial applications; global plastic production reached 388Mt in 2017 and is expected to surpass 1Bt by 2050\. Presently 45% of new plastics are used in short life cycle, single use applications (McKinsey) and just 12% of end-of-life plastic is recycled. Recycling rates are forecast not to exceed 60% by 2050\. At current rates of growth, it is predicted that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish (Ellen MacArthur, 2016).Recycling Technologies Ltd (RT) has developed an innovative process that uses thermal cracking to recycle a wide range of plastic waste that cannot be recycled by conventional methods. The process is incorporated into a modular machine, the RT7000, designed to process 7000tpa of hard-to-recycle mixed plastic waste, producing 5200tpa of a new valuable hydrocarbon oil, Plaxx(r), which has multiple uses including replacing crude oil in plastics production, allowing plastic to be recycled an unlimited number of times.RT's long-term aim is to process mixed plastic waste regardless of type, contaminant or origin and create a circular economy solution. Working together with Neste, the world's leading provider of renewable diesel and jet fuel and the 3rd most sustainable company on the Global 100 list, and Unilever, one the largest fast-moving consumer goods companies in the world, the project will demonstrate how hard-to-recycle plastics (HTRPs) can be recycled into feedstock for virgin-quality packaging, thereby showing that plastic production can be a circular process. The project will:* Establish a collection network for HTRPs* Build an RT7000 machine in Scotland by March 2021 with a capacity of 7,000 tonnes per year (roughly 10% of Scotland's existing recycling capacity) of HTRPs* Take the output from the refining process and "road map" how the Plaxx can be returned to the market as a feedstock for new, virgin quality recycled packaging material.This project is critical because plastic is a highly versatile and valuable material with many important applications (prolonging shelf life, medical infection control, durable goods, efficient transport) but plastic waste, especially that generated by single use items, is a current and urgent problem. This project will build capacity for recycling HTRPs and demonstrate how the technology can be rolled out around the world to address this global problem.

塑料是一种具有许多有益应用的材料； 2017 年全球塑料产量达到 388Mt，预计到 2050 年将超过 1Bt。目前，45% 的新塑料用于生命周期短的一次性应用（麦肯锡），只有 12% 的报废塑料得到回收。预计到 2050 年回收率不会超过 60%。按照目前的增长速度，预计到 2050 年，海洋中的塑料数量将超过鱼类（Ellen MacArthur，2016）。回收技术有限公司 (RT) 开发了一种创新工艺，利用热裂解来回收各种塑料无法通过传统方法回收的塑料废物。该工艺被整合到模块化机器 RT7000 中，该机器设计用于处理 7000 吨/年难以回收的混合塑料废物，生产 5200 吨/年有价值的新型烃油 Plaxx(r)，该油具有多种用途，包括在塑料中替代原油RT 的长期目标是处理混合塑料废物，无论其类型、污染物或来源如何，并创建循环经济解决方案。该项目将与世界领先的可再生柴油和喷气燃料供应商、全球 100 强中排名第三的可持续发展公司 Neste 以及世界上最大的快速消费品公司之一联合利华合作，展示如何努力——可回收塑料（HTRP）可以回收成为原始质量包装的原料，从而表明塑料生产可以是一个循环过程。该项目将：* 建立 HTRP 收集网络* 到 2021 年 3 月在苏格兰建造一台 RT7000 机器，每年处理 7,000 吨 HTRP（约占苏格兰现有回收能力的 10%）* 将精炼过程的产出和“路线图”如何将 Plaxx 作为新的、原始质量的回收包装材料的原料返回市场。该项目至关重要，因为塑料是一种高度通用且有价值的材料塑料垃圾具有许多重要的应用（延长保质期、医疗感染控制、耐用品、高效运输），但塑料垃圾，尤其是一次性物品产生的塑料垃圾，是当前紧迫的问题。该项目将建设回收 HTRP 的能力，并展示如何在世界各地推广该技术以解决这一全球性问题。