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Clean Planet chair The European Plastic Summit 2023: Paving the Way for Plastic Circularity
The European Plastic Summit provided a significant step forward in addressing the challenges and opportunities of plastic waste worldwide.
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Clean Planet Energy (CPE) builds infrastructure to enable the sustainable use of plastics, and reduction of carbon emissions.
Clean Planet Energy's ecoPlants convert hard-to-recycle plastics into ultra-low-sulfur fuels and circular naphtha. CPE's facilities reduce the dependence of fossil-based products in both transportation and the production of new plastics. The ecoPlants utilise the IP and patents from Clean Planet Technologies.
CPE is currently constructing and permitting ecoPlants in locations all over the world.
ecoPlant
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One Clean Planet ecoPlant is designed to process 20,000 tonnes of hard-to-recycle waste plastics every year (60 tons/day).​
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Each ecoPlant produces over 100,000 barrels (~14k tons) of ultra-low-carbon fuels and/or circular naphtha, annually.​
Technology
An ecoPlant uses a combination of Pyrolysis and CPE's patented SAFe Hydroprocessing Technology, among other proprietary designs.
waste plastics
Of the 400 million tonnes of plastic produced worldwide every year, over 70% is discarded within 12 months. Only 8% of this is ever recycled, meaning over 200 million tonnes of plastic ends up in landfill, incineration, or in our oceans, every year.
Plastic offers numerous benefits. Plastic reduces food waste through packaging, saves lives in healthcare applications, and can extend the lifespan of various products. However, the improper handling of plastic waste and insufficient infrastructure for its disposal pose significant challenges.
A CPE ecoPlant can process and recycle almost any plastic, stopping this waste from entering our environment:
#1 - PET
Soft drink bottles, fruit juice containers, cooking oil bottles, water bottles.
Recycled by traditional recycling services
CPE choose not to accept as sustainable alternatives exist
#2 - HDPE
Milk jugs, cleaning agents, shampoo bottles, films, bleaching agents.
Not widely recycled by traditional services
CPE ecoPlants accept & recycle all types of HDPE
#3 - PVC
Electrical appliances, thermal insulation, banners, buoyancy aids, some toys.
Not widely recycled by traditional services
Not currently accepted in Clean Planet ecoPlants
#4 - LDPE
Most films, shopping bags, highly-resistant sacks and most wrappings.
Not widely recycled by traditional services
CPE ecoPlants accept & recycle all types of LDPE
#5 - PP
Bottle tops, biscuit wrappers, containers, plant pots, drinking straws, lunch boxes.
Not widely recycled by traditional services
CPE ecoPlants accept & recycle all types of PP
#6 - PS
Egg & food boxes, fast food trays, disposable cups, & packaging foam.
Not widely recycled by traditional services
CPE ecoPlants accept & recycle all types of PS
#7 - The Rest
Nylon, fiber textiles, polycarbonate (cups, bottles) & components
Not widely recycled by traditional services
CPE ecoPlants accept & recycle all types of #7
CONTAMINANTS
Dirt, Water, Food-Waste, Moulds and more
Requires 99% clean plastics before processing
Able to process waste plastics with 15% contaminants.
circular products
Tomorrow 1.2 billion CO2-emitting road trips will take place, 100,000+ flights will depart, 75,000+ cargo & fishing ships will set sail, and over 1 million tonnes of new plastics will be manufactured. All of these require hydrocarbons (e.g. fossil fuels).
Last year around 43 billion tonnes of CO2e, NOx and SOx emissions were released into the atmosphere.
Clean Planet ecoPlants produce circular alternatives, reducing the need to extract new hydrocarbon products from the ground; lowering CO2e lifecycle emissions.
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sustainability
Clean Planet Energy’s ecoPlants recover waste products, creating liquid fuels and circular-products. The process minimises the carbon emissions associated with conventional hydrocarbon usage and refining.
The EU Taxonomy and the related Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), adopted by the European Union, are innovative regulatory changes designed to integrate sustainability considerations with investment criteria within the financial sector. SFDR is a critical component of this regulation, requiring financial market participants to disclose key information relating to their economic activities. “Green funds”, known as Article 8 and 9 funds are also required to disclose the percentage of their activities which promote or indeed significantly contribute to environmental and sustainability objectives.
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From Catalyst website: "Our purpose and our passion is to make the built environment greener and safer. We do this by helping our clients meet their commercial, regulatory, social and environmental goals. Our team of more than one hundred specialist consultants work with some of the largest companies in the world, guiding their decisions and making their strategies a reality."
partners
partners & vendors
FTAI Infrastructure Inc. (Nasdaq: FIP) owns and acquires high quality infrastructure and related equipment that is essential for the transportation of goods and people globally. FTAI and CPE are building ecoPlants across North America together.
Crossroads European Real Estate Funds have invested in various real estate asset classes throughout Europe, such as hotels, residential, light industrial, retail and co-working. Crossroads and CPE are building ecoPlants across the UK together.
Andera Partners is a major player in private company investments in France and internationally. CPE has joined forces with Andera Partners to build three new ecoPlants in France.
bp and Clean Planet Energy reach agreement to help advance the circular plastics economy. The 10-year agreement sees bp receive the output from CPE's first ecoPlant, and then expand to future ecoPlants under development.
Wood, the global consulting and engineering company, has been awarded a contract for FEED and EPCm services by Clean Planet Energy. Wood will initially design the first suite of Clean Planet Energy’s ecoPlants, which will include three plastics recycling facilities across the US and UK.
Riverrecycle and Clean Planet Energy have a partnership agreement in a bid to support global efforts of removing non-recyclable plastics from rivers and the environment in Southeast Asia, and then re-purposing the waste as new ultra-clean fuels.
RePower South is an advanced recycling, recovery and renewable energy company, transforming communities toward a sustainable waste and energy future. Clean Planet Energy and RePower South have announced an agreement to combine their respective advanced plastics recycling technologies.
KW Plastics is the world’s largest plastics recycler for HDPE and PP. KW Plastics produce a wide range of polyethylene and polypropylene recycled resins for the personal care, automotive, agriculture, construction, pipe, paint & coatings, recreation, and flexible packaging/sheet applications industries.
Stopford is an international energy and environment consultancy providing for over 40 years, innovative multidisciplinary solutions to a global market. They provide technical insight for CPE.
BPF
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) is the world's longest-running plastics trade association, initially established in 1933 with the aim to promote the UK plastics industry ever since.
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RECOUP
RECOUP is a charity and leading authority providing expertise and guidance across the plastics recycling value chain. RECOUP aims to increase plastics recycling and promote resource management.
The ISCC is the body for International Sustainability & Carbon Certification, providing sustainability solutions for fully traceable of supply chains. Being accepted by the ISCC supports CPE in its mission to be recognised for its reduced-carbon and circular products.
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