The Polymers Business Unit of Total S.A. and Polystyvert, a Montreal-based clean technology startup with an innovative method for polystyrene recycling, have signed an agreement to work together on the dissolution and purification of household post-consumer polystyrene.
The combination of Polystyvert’s technology and Total’s know-how in industrial-scale dissolution and polymerization technologies should generate high quality recyclates addressing a broad range of polystyrene market requirements.
Polystyvert has developed an innovative low-carbon-footprint method for recycling polystyrene that is based on a dissolution process. This process produces recyclates which can be used in a broader range of market applications than recyclates produced through mechanical recycling methods. Household post-consumer plastics such as polystyrene often contain contaminants that make mechanical recycling difficult or not practical.
Published in the July 2018 Edition