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Plastic waste: An urgent waste management challenge
08/10/2024

Innovative processes for the recovery and reprocessing of delaminated plastics from multilayer packaging.
Francisco V. Sánchez Correa - ITENE
In 2022, Europe produced approximately 58.8 million tonnes of plastics, while globally some 400.3 million tonnes were generated, according to Plastics Europe. This high volume of plastics production poses serious challenges for waste management, especially considering that 80% of the plastics produced in Europe come from non-renewable fossil sources. This dependence on unsustainable resources underlines the urgent need to find effective solutions for plastics recycling and management.
In Europe, the recycling of post-consumer plastics from packaging covers only 37.8% of the 18.5 million tonnes of plastic waste generated annually. Despite this effort, a significant part of this waste, 17.3%, ends up in landfill, while 44.8% is destined for energy recovery, i.e. incinerated to generate energy. This approach, while useful in reducing the...READING MORE AT https://www.infopack.es/revista/316/index50.html
