DON BOSCO CHURCH VADODARA

Plastic waste spreads into our oceans and waterways, attacking the bodies of humans and wildlife and filling landfills with new and once-recyclable plastics. Many companies and institutions are working to reduce plastic waste. In this 4-minute video, we will see how Loop Industries takes pre-existing plastic items and polyester fiber materials and then transforms them into new plastic products by avoiding the use of petroleum and natural gas

•Loop is a Canadian-based company that uses a traditional upcycling method with existing plastic materials along with polyester fiber materials and decomposes them into new plastic products by applying heat and pressure. 

•This process doesn’t require an energy traditional recycling center which helps to reduce greenhouse gases. 

 
So how does Loop’s process work?

•Loop makes the monomers using plastic waste and then rebuild those monomers back into plastic.

•To start they load their massive reactors with a bunch of waste plastic.

•Then they add their proprietary catalyst which cuts the bonds between chemicals (DMT- Dimethyl Terephthalate and MEG- Monoethylene Glycol ) of plastic and releases them.

•The separated chemicals are then purified and turned back into PET- Polyethylene Terephthalate pellets, the base of all plastic products, and are sold to bottling and packaging companies, which can be broken down and rebuilt after being used up as a plastic water bottle or polyester cloth, or more. A continuous cycle that doesn’t requires fossil fuels.

•Loops finished products are currently used by Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Evian.

 
Let’s hope it's sustainable enough to make plastic waste disappear