The human ecological footprint is increasing at an alarming rate. The enormous amount of plastic waste that ends up in the environment every day plays a major role in this. Currently, only a small percentage of plastic waste is being recycled into new products. This means that the rest of the plastic waste ends up in landfills, in nature, or is burnt. In 2018, the European Committee put in place guidelines that have to make sure that 55% of the plastic waste will be recycled in 2030.

In order to achieve this goal, we have to work at separating the mixture of plastic waste, to create a pure raw material for high-quality new plastic products.

Plastic Recycling Amsterdam offers an innovative solution for recycling collected plastic into
a high-quality raw material. The recycling factory in Amsterdam uses Magnetic Density Separation (MDS): a special technology that makes recycling mixed plastic waste flows a lot more efficient.

Plastic Recycling Amsterdam is a collaboration between TU Delft, Umincorp, and Milieu Service Nederland.

Vision

Our goal is to achieve circularity of polymers.

Mission

creating economic circularity by using our innovative technology to turn mixtures of different synthetic materials into 99% pure polymers.