Launch of EU project on chemical recycling DEMETO

The new European project on chemical recycling DEMETO has officially been launched. DEMETO aims at enabling chemical de-polymerization of PET at industrial scale based on its microwave-based process intensification, focusing as a start on coloured bottles waste. The project has received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
The core DEMETO technology enables the depolymerisation reaction (hydrolysis) of plastic, from bottles as much as from any other source, leading it back to its building blocks (EG and PTA) and, consequently, allowing their full re-introduction directly at the virgin-grade production stage (Press Release DEMETO, 30 October 2017).
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