There exist only few examples for plastic recycling, which allow a re-use in the origin applications. For polyester (PET) bottle recycling, this is achieved through the high degree of selection. In reality the missing purity of plastic streams and/or additives prevent a high quality level of the recycled plastic.

In such cases the CreaSolv^® Process with its high selectivity offers new approaches, which make only sense when offering an economical or technological advantage, what makes an application for cheap bulk plastics questionable.

Expandable polystyrene (EPS) and a re-expandability of the recycled polymer is a big challenge, but also a measurement for the effectiveness of the process. The possible saving in transport cost by dissolving the EPS waste offer an additional incentive, especially at today fuel prices.

The demand for electronic devices increases steadily but for post-consumer plastic waste there exists no other approach than incineration in special combustion furnaces. The employed plastics contain brominated flame retardants and their toxic degradation products, which forbid re-granulation, because this would increase the content of toxic impurities above exposure limit values.  

In order to reduce weight the plastic content in automobils will increase as well and create problems with increasing volumes of plastic waste for the automotive industry, when incineration is not considered as recycling in the EU.