Long life to plastic! · June 19, 2017 OUTDOOR Friedrichshafen 3 Who cares: plastics waste in the...
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Long life to [email protected]
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Why:gr3n vision and mission
VisionEliminate the issue of plastics waste on a global basis
MissionOffer to plastic producers and to waste recyclers a profit way to treat plastic waste,
enabling its chemical recycling and closing its life cycle:“No-more reuse but just recycle!”
If you share our vision, help us to build gr3n, help us to build a dream!
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Who cares: plastics waste in the news
“Our goal is to send zero waste to landfill”“100% circularity; go beyond recycling and completely change the way fashion is made and used.”“Since we launched our garment collecting initiative in 2013, we have gathered more than 22,000 tonnes
of garments to give them a new life – that’s as much fabric as in 100 million t-shirts”
“Integrating recycled plastics into products can be very difficult for manufacturers because there is no strong market for these materials.” “Growing number of reports about marine litter:
micro-plastics could enter the food chain.” “Stepping up plastic waste prevention, preparation for re-use, recycling and separate plastic waste collection, are all essential contributors to help
achieve ‘zero plastic to landfill’ and move to a circular economy”
“Some of these projects involve developing “zero liquid discharge” plants to ensure optimum recycling of water resources, and the creation of production units for recycled plastic to
secure supply source. Other circular economy projects are also in the pipeline.”“DANONE & VEOLIA IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS FOR PET RECYCLING IN INDONESIA”
“We call for a landfill ban of all recyclable and recoverable post-consumer waste by 2025, aligned with modern sorting infrastructure and improved recycling and recovery in order to exploit the fullest potential of this precious resource”. “The Circular Economy is one of the
means of reaching this overarching objective”
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Problem: plastic lifecycle is not closed
• Unlike other materials (i.e. aluminum or glass) PET is reused and not recycled• Each time PET is re-used the quality of its polymers degrades, inevitably leading to landfill or combustion for energy
generation o Multi-phase virgin PET for textile usage (2/3) is almost always landfilled (only 0.25% of post-consumer recovery)o 40% (54% in Europe) of waste bottle-grade virgin PET (1/3) is reused but still, after 1-3 cycles of re-use, is landfilled or burnt
• Around 30.8% of plastics waste, or 8M tons, were landfilled in Europe only in 2014(1)
(1) Source: Plastics Europe, Association of Plastics Manufacturers – “Plastics: the Facts 2015”
Virgin PET production
Amorphous PET
Solid-state PET 60Mt/yr
40Mt/yr
20Mt/yr
45Mt/yr
21Mt/yr
Polyester fibers
PET bottles
Post-consumer recovery
0.1Mt/yr
8.4Mt/yr
Landfill / Energy recovery
60Mt/yr
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Reusing Technology: state of the art technology limits
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Solution: chemical recycling
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Solution:gr3n technology!
• gr3n invented a new process, which enables the chemical recycling of plastics• The technology applies to several plastics: PET – polyester, polycarbonate, polyamide – Nylon, …• Full de-polymerization of all treatable PET waste in approximately 10 minutes• Minimum productivity for single reactor of 16.5 kg/h of PET (15 kt/year for a 100-reactors plant)• Under 2 kWh/kg of energy consumption• Target cost of PET equivalent from monomers: €450-700/t vs. current cost >€800/t
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Enabling technology: circular economy
VirginPETproduction
1st consumergoods
productionCollectionandsorting
2nd consumergoods
production
Monomersrefinementfrom
oil/gas
Landfielddisposition/Ince
neration
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Environmental impact:LCA
PTAANDEGPRODUCTION(perkgofPET)
PTAANDEGbygr3nPROCESS(perkgofPET)
NETREDUCTION
(%)
CLOSINGLOOPCONTRIBUTION
(avoidinginceneration)
NETREDUCTION
(%)
Non-renewable energy requirements (NREU) [MJ] 66.3 21.6 67.4 67.4
Global Warming Potential (GWP) [kg CO2 eq] 2.08 1.28 38.5 -1.05 88.9
• The LCA was performed by Synesis, partner of Symbioptima EU project
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Market:Plastics: material of the 21st century
Global production of plastics(1): 311M tonnes in 2014
European plastics demand and production: 48M and 59M tonnes
(1) Source: Plastics Europe, Association of Plastics Manufacturers – “Plastics: the Facts 2015”
From 1.7M tonnes in 19504.5% CAGR in the last 5 years, expected faster growth in next 5
40% of plastic for packagingPET is the second most used: 60M tonnes globally per year
25.8M tonnes of plastics waste collected in Europe in 2014 (ratio 54%)Collecting ratio rapidly and globally increasing: some 40%
60% of global PET production is used for synthetic fibers (polyester)
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Market:The target customers
PET producers
Rationale
Mechanical recyclers
Sportswear brand
Waste collectors
Economical benefit
• Reduce Raw Material price• Reduce oil&gas market volatility on supplying
• Obtain ready to polymerize material
• +€80/ton PET• Increase margin by 48%
• Ability to treat colored waste• Ability to treat production scraps (PET powder)
• +€74/ton PET• Enable profitable treatment of colored PET
• Diversify sources of revenues• Integrate vertically one step of the value chain • +€35/ton PET
• Reduce Raw Material price• Ability to treat production scraps
(polyester)• Enhance brand equity
• +€326/ton polyester
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Customers’ rationale(1):Sportswear brand
R-PET mixed flakes€768/t
Margin+€326/t
(1) Source for prices: ICIS, October 2015. Oil price was $48/b; when oil price is higher margins, and thus benefit, will expand
IN OUT
• A typical Fashion brand can: a) buy/produce fabrics made with mixed color R-PET flakes, which costs some €768/t or b) set up a gr3n plant and buy/produce fabrics recycling its production scraps and post consumer clothes, setting up a collecting chain in its stores, for a cost of €442/t
• In this way the Fashion brand would not only save €326/t on polyester supplying…• … but will be the first and sole completely environmental friendly brand in fashion industry!
+ €326/tProduction scraps€0/t
Recycled polyester clothes
€0/t
New polyester clothes
NA
MarginNA
Sportswear brand
gr3nProcess€442/t
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What you give:Strengthening brand equity!
• Beyond the economical saving on raw material available thanks to gr3n technology (see annexes), a brand using polyester fabric could propose a paradigm shift in the way its environmental impact from production is perceived by final customers(1)
• Post consumer polyester clothes (also from competitors brands!) could be collected at the stores offering discounts on brand new products, thus increasing loyalty in the consumers
• The brand would exploit increase brand equity and revenues in one fell swoop!(1) “Fashion Is the Second Dirtiest Industry in the World, Next to Big Oil”, Greenpeace Detox campaign
Waste target achievement“Empowering imagination”
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Competition:gr3n clear advantage
Polymer grade raw material
PET Waste treatment
Lower carbon footprint
Reduced raw material price
Close PET lifecycle
Colored material
Coupled polymers and fabrics
Reduced intrinsic viscosity(not usable for all applications)
Produce only virgin material grade. Do not provide any
solution for waste treatment
gr3n technology: solution for plastic waste!
Monomers’ producers Mechanical recyclers
Not effective as gr3n
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Business Model:tiered technology provider
Assembly Service LicenseEPC
Contractor
Waste collectors
Mechanical recyclers
PET producers
• gr3n will continuously develop, assembly and sell microwave reactors• Servicing of the installed base and licensing of the process will provide stream of revenues• Microwave reactors are the core technology of recycling plant supplied by EPC contractors to future
potential customers• EPC contractor(1), PET producer(1) and Mechanical recycler already expressed interest in gr3n
technology(1) Both are already part of Symbioptima consortium for the realization of the reactor
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When:gr3n timeline
2011• gr3n idea tested in LAB• Batch process• Patent
2012-14• Microwave reactor• Continuous process• Patent extension
2015-18• Testing full scale
reactor
2021• Industrial plant in JV
with mechanical recycler and PET producer
LAB PRE-PILOT REACTOR PILOT REACTOR INDUSTRIAL PLANT
Swiss Incubator 2nd Italian place European finalist
Enrolled in KTI program Awarded KTI label Horizon 2020 projects
2017-20PILOT PLANT
• Testing full scale plant• Validating all the
ancillary systems
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Thank you
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020-SPIRE-2015 research andinnovation program under grant agreement No 680426, SYMBIOPTIMA. This paper reflects only the author'sview. The Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.