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The Instituto Tecnológico del Embalaje, Transporte y Logística (ITENE) is breaking new ground in recycling plastic waste through cutting-edge biological and chemical procedures. These advances have been made to address the recycling of multilayered, mono-layered, and pigmented polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic packages, which hitherto posed significant mechanical recycling difficulties or were never recycled. This study was carried out as part of the RecyPET project between June 2022 and June 2023, revealing a significant link to both Spanish and EU sustainable economy goals. The main goal is to manufacture alternative components for remanufacturing operations while reducing the amount of waste destroyed and buried in dumps. It is significant because PET packaging must include at least 25% recycled plastic according to the Spanish Royal Decree on Packaging and Packaging Waste. The research findings suggest that exemptions from the virgin plastics tax in Spain may exist. The levy was imposed in January 2023 to promote broader sustainability in the country.
1.) Enzymatic depolymerization is a biological method that finds microorganisms that can create the enzymes needed to break down PET trash into terephthalic acid (TPA), a monomer that can be used in paints, varnishes, and cosmetics, as well as fresh recycled PET. 2.) In this method, bis-2-hydroxyethyl terephthalate (BHET), a monomer for producing fresh recycled PET and usage in paints and varnishes, is produced by solvolysis of PET with ethylene glycol and catalysts. With 1-2 hours of processing, the technique yields almost 98%, yielding up to 700 grams of BHET per kilogram of processed PET. A treat to the environment is ITENE’s adoption of recycling measures that are breaking new ground, especially on colored bottles, tough multi-layered packaging, and residual materials that used to be hard to recycle. Solving this puzzle has given an important push to packaging factories in achieving their ecological objectives and generating more and better-recycled materials. The sustainability triumph! To turn recycling into habitual behavior, we should expand the scale of operations, enhance the cost-efficiency, attract the involvement of the state and enterprises, and raise public interest in reprocessed articles. Through teamwork, resource allocation, and perpetual investigation, such skilled recycling systems might eventually play a crucial role in a sustainable circular economy where everything is used without any waste through repeated use of all materials.
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