What is Advanced Recycling?
At Qenos, Advanced Recycling means transforming waste plastics into feedstock for producing circular polyethylene at its integrated facilities in Sydney and Melbourne.
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By 2025, Australia has a target of 50% average recycled content in all packaging and 70% of plastic packaging being recycled or composted.
Mechanical recycling alone is unlikely to deliver these targets. At Qenos, advanced recycling can convert used mixed and household soft plastics back into new circular plastics through the use of our steam cracker infrastructure and polymerisation used in the virgin plastic manufacturing process.
The resulting 100% recycled material is food-grade plastic with identical properties to virgin resin.
Advanced RecyclingMechanical Recycling
Beverage containers
(HDPE, PET)
Mechanical Preferred
Food Grade
Coloured rigid containers
(HDPE, PP)
Food Grade
Non-food Grade
Soft plastics
(LDPE, HDPE, PP)
Food Grade
Non-food Grade
Performance
As per conventional PE
Performance deficits
Mixed feedstock
All applications
Downcycling
100% recycled content
All applications
Some applications
Number of cycles
Infinite
<7
Advanced and mechanical recycling are complementary strategies to close the loop on Australia’s plastic waste.
