Eni: signs deal to recover mixed plastics in Italy

(CercleFinance.com) - Italian energy group Eni said on Tuesday that its chemicals unit Versalis is going to team up with Corepla, the Italian company in charge of recovering household plastic packaging waste.


The companies have signed an agreement that will see them pool their expertise to collect and recycle plastic packaging, with a particular focus on non-mechanically recyclable plasmix.

Eni said over half of the plastic packaging collected from sorted bins in Italy is currently sent for mechanical recycling to make new products, while the rest, which is not suitable for mechanical recycling, known as plasmix, mainly ends up in cement plants, or landfill.

The deal aims to launch a study plan that will use all the plasmix fractions available in the Corepla chain.

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