New York, USA
Eastman Chemical
Company (EMN) announced a collaboration with the United States Automotive
Materials Partnership LLC (USAMP), a subsidiary of the United States Council
for Automotive Research LLC (USCAR), and automotive recycler, Padnos. The
companies will partner for a concept feasibility study to recycle
automotive-industry-mixed plastic waste in the automotive supply chain.
Metals, tires
and glass account for 90% of materials to be recycled. The remaining 10%, known
as automotive shredder residue (ASR), consists of mixed plastic and other
non-recycled materials. These end up in landfills or recovered through
waste-to-energy conversion technologies.
Padnos will use
ASR as a viable feedstock for EMN's molecular recycling process, making way for
circular solutions.
The study will
assess the ability of EMN’s carbon renewal technology (CRT) to break down the
plastic in ASR into molecular building blocks. The successful implementation of
CRT will wean off the dependency on fossil-based feedstock. It will create
polymers without compromising the performance in new automotive applications.
Joint efforts
from the member companies of USCAR like Ford, GM and Stellantis are
speeding up the designing approach.
USAMP expects to
save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions while eliminating a significant
fraction of the 5 to 7 million tons of ASR generated annually in the US from
landfills.
Source – NASDAQ
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