Novel identification technology for post-consumer PET streams

The EU-funded Polymark Consortium has developed a new technology enabling the identification and sorting of polymers, focusing on PET as a start, in the high-value plastics waste stream. During a workshop held on 15 March a video about the technology was presented and 3 presentations were given.
First subject was the development of the chemical marker. Second subject was the development of a spectral identification technology that detects the marker and decodes the information in order to separate the post-consumer plastic packaging. In the third presentation the development and functionality of the Polymark industrial scale sorting system was explained (Press Release Polymark, 23 March 2017).
Click here for the press release.
Click here for the video on YouTube.
Click here for the presentations.
Click here for more information about the NVC Project PUMA: the end of packaging as an environmental issue.

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