The EU funding project — known as Retrawl — came to an official end in August this year, marking a significant milestone in the maturation of the Plastix business model and recycling technology. “We’re thrilled to continue working with Plastix on this important and challenging project,” says Allan Klostergaard, Sales Engineer, EFD Induction. “Plastix succeeded where everyone else failed: extracting high quality plastic and metal resources from nets, trawls and cables.”
Plastix and its partners are part of a wider European movement to shift the fishing industry to closed loop models. “Too much of the industry is based on a linear model that goes from production to use and straight on into landfill. This has to change, and become more like the closed recycling loop we e. g. have in Europe with plastic bottles,” adds Klostergaard. Reducing the amount of maritime waste going to landfill is particularly urgent, not least because of EU directives in this key area.
Plastix currently operates a recycling facility at its headquarters in Lemvig in the Jutland region of Denmark. The company is working with several partners to replicate its recycling solution across Europe, with a particular emphasis on the huge Spanish market. The recycled waste yields valuable PA, PP and PE plastics, as well as high grade steel. The Plastix solution even recycles taifun wire, a particularly challenging material consisting of weaved steel encased in PE plastic.
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