Ten-Year Forecast of Disruptive Technologies in Recycled Plastic Packaging | Market Reports & Data

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The top 25 disruptive technologies which are due to change the face of recycled plastic packaging
You will uncover developments and changes which can be considered disruptive rather than simply evolutionary in the recycling industry
This report presents ranks and describes and discusses in detail the technologies, advances, factors, developments and trends involved.

Smithers’ new report discussed the present status, advances and future trends in sustainable plastic packaging recycling and recovery markets, materials and technology. Whilst analysing where the industry would witness the most disruption, Smithers investigated material usage; packaging design and changes in format; end-of-life mechanical recycling processes; materials; delamination and selective extraction (solvent recycling) processes; chemical recycling and depolymerization to monomers, gasification; pyrolytic and hydrothermal processes; reusable and refillable packaging; and other factors potentially affecting all plastic packaging materials and formats.

This report will also consider areas such as consumer preferences, NGO and environmental group pressures, the influence of government regulations and industry responses to these challenges.

What will you discover?

This report discusses and analyzes a broad range of technologies and developments which could significantly impact the plastic packaging recycling and recovery and waste management industries over the next ten years to 2030
Major factors and objectives considered while compiling the top 25 most disruptive technologies, including source reduction (materials and energy use); reuse and refilling.

What methodology is used?

A Delphi-type study was used for this report comprising three iterative rounds of survey, assessment and feedback. This process started off with extensive literature and patent research, data collection and discussions with 44 industry experts to produce an extended initial list containing 65 items in 9 general categories of potentially disruptive technologies, advances, factors, developments, changes and trends which could impact the plastic packaging recycling and recovery and plastic waste management industries over the next ten years.

Who should buy this report?

Plastic packaging raw materials
High-performance plastic packaging products equipment suppliers
Plastic packaging manufacturing equipment suppliers
Packaging manufacturers
Packaging converters
Brand and retailers

About the Author

Dr Terry Cooper is CEO of ARGO Group International. He has over 50 years’ experience in worldwide polymer-related R&D, manufacturing and market development. He spent 16 years in R&D at DuPont and eight years managing polymerrelated research and business groups at Arco Chemical Company (Atlantic Richfield), before founding ARGO Group. He is responsible for work recognised in over 40 patents and applications and over 80 publications and presentations and has extensive international experience in the USA, Europe and Japan.

Name Ten-Year Forecast of Disruptive Technologies for Recycled Plastic Packaging to 2030

Date 12/24/2020

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Executive summary

Overview
Top 25 Technologies, Advances, Factors, Developments and Trends
Outlook for Plastic Packaging Recycling and Recovery to 2030
Recycling and Recovery Technologies
Chemical, Advanced and Molecular Recycling
Improved Mechanical Recycling Processes and Infrastructure
Improved Materials and Packaging Designs and Design for Recyclability
- Government Roles
- Industry-Related Roles and Development
- Evolution and Effect of Public Opinion
Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Plastic Packaging Recycling and Recovery

Introduction and methodology

Objectives
Scope
Abbreviations
Methodology
- Initial List of Potential Candidate Topics for Analysis and Evaluation
  - Plastic Packaging Mechanical Recycling
    - Material Usage
    - Packaging design and changes in format
    - End-of-life mechanical recycling processes
  - Organic Recycling
    - Materials
    - Delamination and Selective Extraction (Solvent Recycling) Processes
    - Chemical recycling and depolymerization to monomers
    - Gasification, Pyrolytic and Hydrothermal Processes
  - Reusable and Refillable Packaging
  - Other Factors Potentially Affecting All Plastic Packaging Materials and Formats
Top 25 disruptive technologies
Definitions

Plastics Packaging Recycling and Recovery: Status, Key Drivers and Trends

Introduction
Plastic packaging recyclability and recovery

Disruptive Technologies, Advances, Factors, Developments and Trends in Plastic Packaging Recycling and Recovery

Introduction
Overview of Plastic Packaging Recycling and Recovery Technology
- EU Waste Hierarchy
Overview of Factors in the Top 25 Rankings
Mechanical Recycling
- Rigid Packaging Mechanical Recycling
  - Outline of PET bottle recycling
  - Outline of HDPE bottle recycling
- Collection, Identification, Marking and Sorting Technologies and Equipment
  - Project HolyGrail: Intelligent Sorting at Recycling Facilities 2.0
  - Polymark Project (Europe)Re-Plast Project (Denmark) 70
  - R-Cycle Project (Germany)
  - Tomra and Other Machinery Manufacturers
  - Plastic Labels, Adhesives and Labeling Systems
  - Advances in Mechanical Recycling Processes for Rigid Plastics Packaging and Production of Higher Quality and Consistency Recyclates
    - APR PCR Certification Program
    - RecyClass Platform and Certification Program (Europe)
    - Polypropylene Recycling Coalition
- Design for Recyclability
- APR design guidelines
- RecyClass Platform (Europe)
  - Mechanical Recycling Technologies Which Do Not Cause Recyclate Property Degradation
- Printing Inks and De-Inking Technology
  - CADEL Deinking
- New Packaging Designs Usable for Wider Product Ranges
  - Replacement of Existing Black Pigments in Rigid Packaging
  - Nextek/Wrap Project: Development of NIR Detectable Black Plastic Packaging
  - NIRSort Project
    - Gabriel-Chemie masterbatch colors for black plastic recycling
  - Clariant Colorworks™ IR-Detectable Black Technology to Make Other Dark Colors More Recyclable
    - Avient (Previously PolyOne)
    - Ampacet REC-NIR Black™️ masterbatches
    - BASF Sicopal Black
    - Toyo Ink Lioplax
    - Sukano
- Materials and Designs for Easier Recyclable Replacements for Thermoplastic or Foamed Clamshells and Food Service Packaging
- Flexible Packaging Recycling
Rankings for Flexible Packaging Factors
- Improved Flexible Packaging Mechanical Recycling: Materials Recovery for the Future and CEFLEX Projects
  - Materials Recovery for the Future (MRFF) (US)
  - Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) Project (Europe)
  - EPPIC Project (UK)
  - Kroger Simple Truth Recycling
- Development of Monomaterial Flexible Packaging to Replace Multilayer Systems
  - Complications of Multilayer Structures
  - Replacement of Multilayer Structures with Mono-material Systems
  - Incorporation of Compatibilizers or Coupling Agents to Facilitate Mechanical Recycling
- Development of Recyclable Barrier Systems and Barrier Coatings and Adhesives to Replace Polymer Layers
- Improved Shelf-Life Systems
Chemical, Advanced or Molecular Recycling
- Rankings for Chemical Recycling and Related Processes
  - Development of Non-Mechanical Recycling and Recovery Processes
  - Development of Chemical Recycling Processes for Depolymerizing Packaging Polymers back to Monomers
  - Depolymerization Processes for Polyesters
    - BP Infinia Consortium
- Depolymerization Process for Polyamides
- Depolymerization Processes for Polystyrene to Styrene Monomer
- Other Chemical Recycling Ratings
  - Chemical Recovery Systems for Waste-to-Syngas, Waste-to-Platform Chemicals, Waste-to-Downstream Hydrocarbons, Waste-to-Liquid-Fuels, and Waste-to-Energy
    - Plastic Waste Conversion to Syngas, Naphtha, Synthetic Oils and Waxes, Liquid Fuels and Energy
  - Plastic Waste Conversion to Downstream Chemicals
- Smaller-Scale Distributed Gasification and Pyrolysis Units for Plastic Waste
- Other Chemical Recycling Systems
- Microbiological and Enzymatic Recycling
- Solvent-based recycling systems
- Selective Extraction Processes
  - Concerns about Chemical Recycling
Government Roles
- Government Regulations, and Packaging Bans and Taxes
- Rationalization of the Recycling and Reclamation Industry
- European Union and UK Plastic Taxes
- California Proposed Plastics Packaging Tax and Other US Developments
- EU and UK Circular Economy Packages and European Green Deal
- Ocean Plastics Pollution and Packaging Bans and Taxes
- Traceability and Resource Recovery Information
- United Nations Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
Industry Roles
- Environmental Analysis Methodologies
  - Life Cycle Assessment
- Investment and Involvement by Major Petrochemical Companies
- Industry Initiatives including Brand Commitments to Recycled Content, Ellen MacArthur Foundation and National Plastic Pacts
- GreenBlue Recycled Materials Standard
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation Goals for a Circular Economy
- National Plastics Pacts and Other Organizations
  - National Plastics Pacts
  - Plastics Industry Recycling Action Plan (PIRAP)
  - Alliance to End Plastic Waste
Evolution and Effect of Public Opinion

Addendum: Effect Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Plastic Packaging Recycling And Recovery

Introduction
Packaging Production
Supply chains and Just-in-Time Manufacturing Systems
Packaging Design and Use
Single-Use and Flexible Packaging
Impact on Recycling and Waste Management
- MRF Operations

Plastics Packaging Recycling and Recovery Forecasts to 2030

Overview
Outlook for Packaging Recycling and Recovery to 2030
Recycling and Recovery Technologies
Chemical, Advanced and Molecular Recycling
Improved Mechanical Recycling Processes and Infrastructure
Improved Materials and Packaging Designs and Design for Recyclability
Government Roles
Industry-Related Roles and Development
Evolution and Effect of Public Opinion
Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Plastic Packaging Recycling and Recovery

List of figures
FIGURE 3.1 - End-of-life or end-of-cycle hierarchy for plastic packaging waste
FIGURE 3.1 - Partners in the HolyGrail Project
FIGURE 3.2 - Cadel De-Inking Process
FIGURE 3.3 - World Consumer Flexible Packaging Consumption by Application
FIGURE 3.4 - World Consumer Flexible Packaging Consumption by Material
FIGURE 3.5 - Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging Project
FIGURE 3.6 - Generic Structure of Multilayer Flexible Barrier Packaging
FIGURE 3.7 - Example of Dow “How2Recycle” Monomaterial Structure
FIGURE 3.8 - Examples of Recyclable Dow Monomaterial Pouch Structures
FIGURE 3.9 - Recyclable Monomaterial High Oxygen-Barrier PE Standup Pouch
FIGURE 3.10 - Mode of Action of Dow Retain Compatibilizer for EVOH Barrier Layer
FIGURE 3.11 - Dow Compatibilizer Systems for Recycling
FIGURE 3.12 - Compatibilizer Technology Developed by DuPont
FIGURE 3.13 – Dow Compatibilizer Products
FIGURE 3.14 - Sun Chemical SUNBAR Oxygen Barrier Coating
FIGURE 3.15 - Sun Chemical (DIC) PASLIM Barrier Adhesive
FIGURE 3.16 - Eastman Chemical Methanolysis Process
FIGURE 3.17 - Eastman Chemical Glycolysis and Methanolysis Processes
FIGURE 3.18 - BHET: bis (2-hydroxyethyl)terephthalate
FIGURE 3.19 - SABIC Elcrin iQ PBT Process
FIGURE 3.20 - Circularity of Polystyrene Using Chemical Recycling
FIGURE 3.21 - Alter NRG Plasma Gasification Process
FIGURE 3.22 - Enerkem Fluidized Bed Gasification Process
FIGURE 3.23 - Eastman Carbon Renewal Technology
FIGURE 3.24 - Eastman Carbon Renewal Technology
FIGURE 3.25 - Potential Products from the LanzaTech Gaseous Fermentation Process
FIGURE 3.26 - Enval Process for Recycling Plastic/Aluminate Laminates
FIGURE 3.27 - Enval Process for Recycling Plastic/Aluminate Laminates
FIGURE 3.28 - Recycling Technologies Process Flow Diagram
FIGURE 3.29 - Chain Length Distribution of Hydrocarbon Products from the Recycling Technologies Process
FIGURE 3.30 - BioCellection Process Flow Diagram for Dibasic Acids
FIGURE 3.31 - Saperatec Multilayer Packaging Delamination Process
FIGURE 3.32 - CreaSolv® Selective Solvent Extraction Recycling Process
FIGURE 3.33 - Process Equipment for Producing Food-Grade rPP
FIGURE 3.34 - Cradle-to-Cradle Life Cycle Assessment

List of tables
TABLE 0.1 - Ranking of Top 25 Potential Disruptive Technologies, Advances, Factors Developments and Trends for Plastics Packaging Recycling and Recovery to 2030
TABLE 1.1 - Plastic Packaging Recycling & Recovery Disruptive Technologies, Advances, Factors, Developments and Trends Ranking Form
TABLE 1.2 - Ranking of Top 25 Potential Disruptive Technologies, Trends, Developments and Factors for Plastics Packaging Recycling and Recovery to 2030
TABLE 3.1 - APR Plastics Packaging Recyclability Design Guide Categories
TABLE 3.2 - Summary of flexible packaging advantages and disadvantages