With Digi-Cycle users in Austria get local references to waste disposal for registered products

The research programme “Net-Zero Concrete” is heading for CO2-neutral binders, renewable aggregates and concrete as a carbon sink.

In March 2023, the DFG (German Research Foundation) approved the Priority Programme "Net-Zero Concrete" (SPP2436). This is coordinated by the Institute of Construction and Building Materials (WiB) of Technische Universität Darmstadt. This six-year programme is ready for applications for the first, three-year funding period (source: Technische Universität Darmstadt).

LyondellBasell is planning a plant for chemical recycling of plastic waste in Wesseling, Germany. The plant is expected to have an annual capacity of 50,000 tonnes per year. Source One Plastics, a joint venture of LyondellBasell and 23 Oaks Investments, formed in October 2022, intends to supply the majority of the sorted processed feedstock. Construction is planned to be completed by the end of 2025.

(Source: LyondellBasell)

OMV and Interzero establish joint venture to build and operate a sorting facility for chemical recycling in Baden-Württemberg.

OMV has announced the final investment decision to build an innovative sorting plant developed by Interzero to produce feedstock for chemical recycling. In total, OMV plans to invest an amount of over EUR 170 mn to build this state-of-the-art facility in Walldürn, Baden-Württemberg. OMV will hold 89.9 percent of the shares in the joint venture and 10.1 per cent of the shares will belong to Interzero. The sorting facility will be the first of its kind to produce feedstock for OMV’s chemical recycling on a large industrial scale (source: press release by OMV).

The Circular material use rate (CMU) in the European Union has increased slightly 2022

REMONDIS and Pyrum have signed a letter of intent to build a plant for pyrolysis of used tyres in Bremen. That has been announced py Pyrum Innovations AG in a press release. From 20.000 tons of used tyres per year they plan to recover pyrolysis oil and the raw material carbon black with the Pyrum technology. The plant shall be located on a site owned by Weserport in Bremen, a subsidiary of the REMONDIS sister company Rhenus.