India-based chemical recycler Polycycl announced it entered into an agreement with Re Sustainability, Asia’s largest integrated waste management company, for the development of a network of feedstock facilities in India for chemical recycling of plastics. The first waste sorting and pre-processing facility is planned to be built in the territory of Delhi.
As part of the collaboration, Re Sustainability will extract single-use flexible films and packaging waste from multiple streams and prepare them as feedstock for chemical recycling projects run by PolyCycl and its partners. Polycycl’s proprietary chemical recycling technology pyrolyzes LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE, PP and PS plastics in both rigid and flexible form. The technology enables large capacity plants with multiple modular lines, each capable of processing 75 tons to 100 tons per day of waste plastic feedstock.
Polycycl already operates a fully continuous chemical recycling demonstration facility in Chandigarh, India. The plant uses its patented AutoCharRemoval reactor design, which promotes constant feedstock agitation, enabling high heat transfer and continuous expulsion of solid residues from the pyrolysis process. Polycycl and Re Sustainability are planning to build the first waste sorting and pre-processing facility in the territory of Delhi.
"Through this collaboration, we are excited to demonstrate commercial scale extraction of low-grade waste plastics from landfills, using automated and high-throughput methods,” said Amit Tandon, CEO of PolyCycl. “A large part of such plastics cannot be recycled using conventional methods and the collaboration aims to expand the quantum of plastics being recycled in the country,” he added. According to data from India's Central Pollution Control Board, over 10,000 tons of waste plastics end up in landfills across the country every day.
In 2021, Polycycl signed another feedstock agreement with UK-based Greenback Recycling Technologies.