Waste that was swept off a sawmill floor, plant-based binders and beeswaxes created foams with potential for sustainable packaging and building materials.
This achievement required rigorous preparation, as Trinseo, alongside the Fraunhofer Institute prepared an "EFSA Novel Technology Dossier" to demonstrate the decontamination efficiency of its dissolution installation and to validate the food contact safety of the finished product.
The process of the mechanical recycling of polystyrene is taking place in multiple steps from sorting (deep NIR sorting including object recognition), across hot washing and flake sorting, to melt filtration and pelletizing.
