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Recycling plastics to curb CO2 emissions

By turning plastic waste into hydrocarbons that can be used to produce new plastic products, the PULSE project is helping keep plastic out of landfills.

The project has developed innovative technologies for pretreating and upgrading liquefied waste plastic. Once integrated into a refinery’s chemical recycling process, this circular technology will decrease CO₂ emissions and help reduce Europe’s dependence on fossil fuels. By enabling the recycling of more than 5.9 million tonnes of otherwise hard-to-recycle plastics, the PULSE chemical recycling process will result in a total greenhouse gas saving of 10.3 metric tons of CO₂ equivalent during its first 10 years of operation and save 3.95 million tonnes of virgin fossil raw materials.

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