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TotalEnergies speeds up development of food-grade recycled plastics

Source:TotalEnergies Release Date:2023-01-11 669
ChemicalPlastics & RubberOthersCompoundingRaw Materials & CompoundsPlastics Machinery
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TotalEnergies joins NEXTLOOPP to accelerate the development of food-grade recycled polymers

TotalEnergies has joined NEXTLOOPP, an initiative bringing together 47 companies from the plastics value chain that aims to create food-grade recycled polymer from advanced me-chanical recycling.

 

Launched in October 2020 by Nextek Ltd, NEXTLOOPP is a global multiparticipant and award-winning project with the objective to produce high-quality recycled polypropylene that is suitable for food-grade applications and made from post-consumer packaging material.

 

The project deploys pioneering technology to efficiently and cost-effectively sort food-grade polypropylene (PP) from post-consumer material and then decontaminate the polymer to comply with stringent food-grade standards. NEXTLOOPP has recently completed a landmark study of background contamination of post-consumer PP packaging for its submissions to food safety authorities in Europe (EFSA), in the United States (USFDA) and in the United Kingdom (UK FSA).


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TotalEnergies is committed to the development of a circular economy for plastics and to meet the growing customer demand for high-quality recycled polymers. In that context, TotalEnergies will leverage this technological partnership to accelerate the feasibility review of advanced mechanical recycling projects targeting food contact and further expand its recently launched RE:use polymers range which contain mechanically recycled raw materials.

 

The initiative will allow TotalEnergies to go one step further in developing technologies to produce food-grade recycled material from advanced mechanical recycling and broaden the company’s options for projects that contribute to its ambition to produce 30% circular polymers by 2030, according to Nathalie Brunelle, Senior Vice President Polymers at TotalEnergies.

 

Professor Edward Kosior, founder and CEO of Nextek Ltd and NEXTLOOPP said that the whole of the NEXTLOOPP project is strengthened by TotalEnergies’ adding to the programme their extensive technical capabilities in creating circular solutions for PP resins.  


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