INEOS STYROLUTION Announces Breakthrough in Chemical Recycling of Polystyrene

INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, announces today that it completed the first successful test runs producing virgin polystyrene from previously de-polymerised material. These experiments, completed at the company’s Antwerp site in Belgium, can be seen as the practical proof of the recyclability of polystyrene.

Today’s announcement is part of INEOS Styrolution’s ambitious efforts aiming at circularity for styrenics to save valuable resources, recycle styrenic waste and reduce the ecological footprint. The company’s efforts include research projects, as well as collaboration through the value chain and partnerships with customers.

“We are very excited having achieved this breakthrough,” comments Michiel Verswyvel, Global R&D Expert. “Due to its relatively clean decomposition into its building blocks, polystyrene is almost designed to be recycled. Within our global project team we are working to make this a stable process on a commercial level, by learning for example more about purity requirements of the feedstock material,” he adds.

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