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TOMRA Recycling Sorting will be joined on stand just 0.8 square metres and features plug-and-
by the start-up PolyPerception which offers AI- play installation for seamless set-up and a large
based waste flow monitoring, with TOMRA hav- 21.5" touch display for improved ease of use for
ing acquired a 25% stake in PolyPerception earli- consumers.
er this year. TOMRA’s advanced material sorting
systems and cloud-based monitoring solution, Terry Keyworth, sales manager UK and Ireland at
TOMRA Insight, combined with PolyPerception’s TOMRA Recycling Sorting, commented: “We’re
innovative waste analysis solution are enabling looking forward to being back at RWM again this
PET recyclers and sorting plants to optimise the year. It’s always a great networking opportunity
entire recycling process and material flow. which attracts a vast range of professionals from
across the waste management industry. The
Over on stand ME-E203, experts from TOMRA show is an ideal platform for us to highlight our
Collection will be demonstrating the TOMRA B5 latest product developments and talk to existing
Combi, a compact, standalone reverse vending and potential customers about the many ways
machine which collects plastic bottles and cans. in which we can optimise resource recovery and
The machine can be equipped with one or two help close the loop on a vast range of materials.”
bins, for separated or commingled material col- SOURCE – INTERPLAS INSIGHTS
lection. The TOMRA B5 Combi has a footprint of
Shell quietly backs away from pledge to increase
‘advanced recycling’ of plastics
nergy giant promised to turn 1m tonnes of Louisiana chemical plants for the first time. And
plastic waste into oil each year, but now it began publicizing a new goal for the technol-
Esays goal is unfeasible ogy: “Our ambition is to use 1m tonnes of plastic
waste a year in our global chemicals plants by
The energy giant Shell has quietly backed away 2025.”
from a pledge to rapidly increase its use of “ad-
vanced recycling”, a practice oil and petrochem- But recently, the company rolled back that prom-
ical producers have promoted as a solution to ise with little fanfare: “[I]n 2023 we concluded
the plastics pollution crisis. that the scale of our ambition to turn 1m tonnes
of plastic waste a year into pyrolysis oil by 2025
“Advanced” or “chemical” recycling involves is unfeasible,” it said in its 2023 sustainability re-
breaking down plastic polymers into tiny mol- port, published in March.
ecules that can be made into synthetic fuels or
new plastics. The most common form, pyrolysis, Reached for comment, a Shell spokesperson,
does so using heat. Curtis Smith, said: “Our ambition, regardless of
regulation, is to increase circularity and move
Shell has invested in pyrolysis since 2019, touting away from a linear economy to one where prod-
it as a way to slash waste. That year, the com- ucts and materials are reused, repurposed and
pany used oil made via pyrolysis in one of its recycled.”
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