31 Jan 2024 --- Advanced recycling allows turning hard-to-recycle plastic waste streams into virgin-quality raw materials for new plastics. According to recycling industry experts, this enables the production of recycled content even in the most demanding applications, such as food-contact packaging or medical applications. Heikki Färkkilä, vice president for Chemical Recycling at Neste, tells Packaging Insights that advanced recycling also enables reviving polymer material that has already been mechanically recycled once or several times. “We consider advanced recycling a strong addition to the circularity of plastics and a complementary solution to existing recycling technologies.”
