Jacksonville Jaguars, PureCycle Team Up to Help Stop Over Half a Million Pieces of Plastic from Entering Environment
June 28, 2022 at 07:00 am EDT
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PureCycle Technologies, Inc. and the Jacksonville Jaguars are teaming up to help divert over half a million pieces of plastic waste at TIAA Bank Field from being landfilled or flowing into waterways. The Jacksonville Jaguars are the first professional sports team in Florida to implement PureCycle's PureZero TM waste program, a first-of-its-kind plastic waste program geared toward stadiums and entertainment venues. Through this partnership, PureCycle becomes the Proud Plastic Recycling Partner of the Jaguars. Part of the efforts in the first year of the partnership with the Jaguars will be focused on understanding the positive impact of the program on the Jacksonville area.
PureCycle Technologies, Inc.
and the Jacksonville Jaguars are teaming up to help divert over half a million pieces of plastic waste at TIAA Bank Field from being landfilled or flowing into waterways. The Jacksonville Jaguars are the first professional sports team in Florida to implement PureCycle's PureZero TM waste program, a first-of-its-kind plastic waste program geared toward stadiums and entertainment venues. Through this partnership, PureCycle becomes the Proud Plastic Recycling Partner of the Jaguars. Part of the efforts in the first year of the partnership with the Jaguars will be focused on understanding the positive impact of the program on the Jacksonville area.
PureCycle Technologies, Inc. is commercializing a patented purification recycling technology (the Technology), originally developed by The Procter & Gamble Company, for restoring waste polypropylene into resin with near-virgin characteristics, called ultra-pure recycled (UPR) resin. Its process includes two steps: Feed Pre-Processing (Feed PreP) and the use of the Technology for purification. The Feed PreP step will collect, sort, and prepare polypropylene waste (feedstock) for purification. The purification step is a purification recycling process that uses a combination of solvent, temperature, and pressure to return the feedstock to near-virgin condition through a novel configuration of commercially available equipment and unit operations. The purification process puts the plastic through a physical extraction process using critical fluids that both extract and filter out contaminants and purify the color, opacity, and odor of the plastic without changing the bonds of the polymer.
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