Plastic

Traditionally, bulky municipal plastic waste not selectively collected in Belgium’s Walloon Region was incinerated. Today, the Technopoly Recyclage project is demonstrating the feasibility of recycling this waste stream and converting it to secondary raw materials. Plastic waste volumes are increasing and plastic recycling has become a major challenge. The Technopoly Recyclage project worked towards the valorisation of municipal plastic waste in order to minimise disposal at the landfill. Shredded plastic is ground into small pellets, which can then be melted and moulded into new objects, such as storage boxes, buckets, pallets, plastic toys and tools.