Optimizing plastic recycling with concrete solutions

The result of an unprecedented collaboration between consumer product companies, packaging producers and an industry association, the Circular Plastics Taskforce (CPT) aims at helping build a circular economy for post-consumer plastics in Canada.

How?

Better alignment between the recovery and recycling value chain and end markets for recycled resins.

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Steering Committee

With the support of

Vision

That all plastic packaging put on the market in Quebec and Canada be collected and recycled in keeping with market needs (volumes, grades, quality) to create a circular economy.

Goal

Optimize plastics management (plastics 1 through 7, rigid and flexible) throughout the recycling value chain through a better alignment between MRFs, processors and the needs of PCR end markets.

The project

PHASE I

February 2020 to April 2021

Value Chain Mapping and Optimization Proposals

Consult the white paper

Determine the needs of different markets for recycled plastics.

Establish the ideal stream for collected plastics and for sorting centres, up to the time they are packaged and transformed by recyclers, to ensure technical compliance so they can be reintegrated in the manufacturing of new products

Make assumptions of possible ways to improve processes, equipment or technology in sorting centers and processing facilities in order to create a greater synergy within the value chain.

Carry out preliminary simulations to trial the identified improved processes/equipment and propose the selected improvement scenarios that will be put into practice in phase II