Carbios SAS to expand PET recycling portfolio to the UK
French bioplastics recycling specialist Carbios SAS and British recycling and waste management company FCC Environment want to establish a PET biorecycling facility in the UK.
| To set up anoether PET recycling facility in the UK based on Carbios’ biotech platform technology, the French have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with FCC Environment plc to analyse the implementation of a UK-based plant licencing Carbios’ biorecycling technology.
In order to tackle the plastic waste crisis, Carbios has developed and financed a revolutionary enzymatic depolymerization technology that enables efficient and solvent-free recycling of PET plastic and textile waste into virgin-like products with over 95% efficiency, which would mean 20 recycling cycles for every ton of PET newly produced. Carbios has ambitious plans to become a leading technology provider in the recycling of PET by 2035. In addition to the world’s first industrial-scale enzymatic PET recycling plant which is currently under construction in Longlaville, France, this UK-based plant would process PET waste that is currently not recyclable using conventional recycling technologies, such as colored, multilayered or textile waste. Carbios’ CEO Emmanuel Ladent told European Biotechnology that the expantion of the company’s enzymatic PET recycling technology is only one pillar in the company’s business strategy. Another is PLA plastics and screening for enzymes that depolymerise other plastics that are resistant to biological decay such as PE or polyamides. |
Science, www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn8662
