Recommendable!
Unfortunately, the article reads like a prospectus for investors and it is very skimpy on technical details. However, this company has possibly found a way to recycle dirty plastic into a useful product (plastic sheeting for insulation) in a straight forward end-to-end fashion.
"... In 2017, the dirty plastic secret burst into the open when China, which used to take the majority of the world’s plastic waste, declared that it would accept only “clean” plastic. Suddenly, cities across the globe had nowhere to send their plastic. Some even began removing recycling bins and pickups. ...
The Alkemy system strings together several off-the-shelf standard industrial machines that, when run according to Alkemy’s methodology, heat (without burning) the dirty plastic to “normalize” its texture and form before outputting it into a ready-to-make sealing product.
There’s no need to ship the raw plastic to one facility for sorting, another for cleaning and a third to fashion the end product. ..."
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