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Read our policy Chemical company INEOS Inovyn has launched two PVC pilot plants at its Jemeppe-sur-Sambre site in Belgium hoping to accelerate recycling technologies for PVC which is not widely mechanically recycled today The move is part of a strategic ‘Project Circle’ initiative which aims to commission an industrial unit with a 40KT recyclable capacity by 2030 around 30% of PVC waste is currently mechanically recycled Project Circle targets the remaining waste by developing new technologies including dissolution The new PVC pilot plants are said to draw on VinyLoop’s technology experience from 2002 to 2018 and are designed to upgrade dissolution technology that supports the recycling of complex PVC waste INEOS Inovyn says that industry wide collaboration plays an important part of Project Circle and it has joined two Belgium consortiums.  said: “PVC is one of the most recycled polymers in Europe but reaching full circularity remains a complex challenge for our industry Project Circle is an ambitious step in developing advanced new solutions and supporting Europe’s green transition.”  added: “We need a thriving and competitive European plastic industry that allows us to increase investment and innovation in circularity and decarbonization The financial support of the Walloon and Flemish region to the consortiums are vital to achieve this.”  which converts plastic waste into valuable products through pyrolysis technology Pryme has apparently developed a new cost-effective approach to pyrolysis that allows used plastic to be recycled with a high conversion rate on an industrial scale with each company contributing its own patented technologies and knowledge to develop a dissolution process The new technology will focus on polyethylene and post-household plastic waste particularly hard-to-recycle packaging structures like rigids How are the top brands progressing on packaging sustainability? 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