A company which specialises in the chemical recycling of plastic waste has opened a new lab in north Leicestershire.
Recycling tech specialist Plastic Energy has opened the research and development facility at the Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park.
The business has developed a way of transforming previously unrecyclable plastic waste into TACOIL – a recycled oil that can be used in petrochemical plants to make ethylene and propylene, the key to making new, “virgin-quality” plastic.
