Model Plas-TCat -Mixed Plastic Recycling

Many plastic packaging materials are unable to be recycled and are instead thrown away after a single use, often landfilled, incinerated, or littered, polluting land and oceans. To address this problem, Anellotech has created Plas-TCatTM: unlike the existing multi-step processes which first liquefy plastic waste back into low value “synthetic oil” intermediate products, Plas-TCat is a one-step thermal-catalytic recycling technology that can convert mixed plastic waste feedstocks, including composite films and other difficult-to-recycle materials, into the same basic chemicals (such as benzene, toluene, xylenes, ethylene, and propylene) that are used today to make most virgin plastics. Once utilized across the industry, Plas-TCat will be able efficiently recycle single-use and other plastics, one of the world’s most urgent challenges.