AFRY : strengthens Plastics Recycling competences

Plastics are used all around us, at home, at work, when we go shopping, or in any industries like packaging, automotive, or manufacturing. The challenge with the broad use of plastics is that the majority is incinerated to produce energy, causing pollution and CO2, or it ends up in landfills or the environment as solid waste that degrade slowly, causing a lot of environmental damage.

The plastic recycling, meaning the reprocessing of plastic waste into new and useful products, will be key in solving this issue together with bioplastics. When recycling is increased, we will see impacts on less landfill use, decreased need for fossil-based resource usage, and the environment protection from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.