Qenos has announced a partnership in a joint feasibility study into advanced recycling with Cleanaway Waste management – Australia’s leading waste management company.
Qenos is a local manufacturer converting low value gases into high quality polyethylene and resins.
The company is Australia’s exclusive manufacturer of polyethylene and a valued supplier of a diverse range of specialty polymers.
Qenos has announced a partnership in a joint feasibility study into advanced recycling with Cleanaway, tackling Australia’s soft and mixed plastics waste challenges.
The joint venture will complete a suite of steam cracker and polymerisation facilities to create circular plastics through advanced recycling.
The study will investigate the feasibility and environmental benefits of converting 100,000 tonnes per annum of household plastic waste into feedstock for use in Qenos’ existing manufacturing facilities to produce circular polyethylene.
Circular polyethylene has identical properties to virgin polyethylene and can be used in food contact and high-performance applications.
Qenos chief executive Stephen Bell said this joint study leverages the combined resources of the companies n the fields of plastic waste management and plastics manufacturing.
“Qenos is uniquely positioned to help solve our country’s soft plastics waste problem, as the only operator in Australia with the complete suite of assets required for the creation of circular plastics through advanced recycling,” said Bell.
“Without polymer manufacturing, advanced recycling stops at plastics-to-oil.”
The study could enable Cleanaway to generate higher resource recovery rates and promote more sustainable, circular outcomes for their waste.
“This project will be a huge step towards a plastics circular economy in Australia and achieving the National Packaging Targets from local inputs,” said Bell.
The joint feasibility study is expected to be completed by July this year, with a final investment decision (FID) to follow shortly after.
Depending on the success of the feasibility study, the first advanced recycling facility is expected to be operational by 2025.
For more information visit the Qenos website.