Recycling

AIMPLAS offers solutions for companies to turn this change into opportunities that contribute to improve their efficiency, reduce their environmental impact and increase their cost-effectiveness.

At AIMPLAS’ recycling area, we work on the different technological routes for the recovery of waste from all sectors where plastic is present: automotive, packaging, textile, construction, fishing, energy, leisure, and sports.

Recycling routes

Taylor-made recycling solutions

• Waste separation and identification.
• Waste conditioning.
• Separation of layers: delamination.
• Cleaning and decontamination with extractive agents including supercritical fluids (continuous and batch processes).
• Recycled material for food contact application: Challenge Test and food-grade suitability. (Consultancy on EFSA authorisations).
• Recycling of composites. Recovery, cleaning, and sizing of fibres.
• Solvolysis/Depolimerization to obtain monomers and oligomers.
• Dereticulation of cross-linked polymers (rubber, EVA).
• Repolymerisation of monomers and oligomers generated after previous recycling .
• Colour and odour removal.
• Mechanical recycling: sorting, reprocessing and property enhancement.
• Chemical recycling of plastic waste.
• Recycling by dissolution (physical recycling).
• Pirolysis and gasification.
• Enzymatic / biological cracking.
• Recovery of CRM (Critical Raw Materials).
• Ecolabels and certifications applicable to the recycling of plastic materials.
• Improving recycled material properties: high value applications.
• Advice on end-of-waste criteria compliance.
• Design for recyclability.
• Techno-economic analysis of processes.
• Analysis of recycled plastic waste and materials.

Thanks to our pilot plant’s equipment in all recycling technologies, we provide tailor-made recycling solutions, based on the study and analysis of our customers’ requirements.

• Shredding and particle size reduction capacity for all types of plastic films and parts. Grinding, cutting and shredding mills. Micronization.
• Washing, centrifuging and cyclone system. Separation in water by density.
• Electrostatic and triboelectric separation. Zigzag air-separator system.
• Optical plastic material identifier and separator (NIR).
• Plastic waste analyzer / identifier.
• Reactors of different capacities for chemical recycling.
• Pyrolysis pilot plant.
• Microwave-assisted pyrolysis.
• Biological and enzymatic treatment: cracking and fermentation.

Certifications and ecolabels

We are at the forefront of legislative requirements on waste, offering specialized advice in this field.

We help companies along the entire plastics value chain to become certified through different mechanisms (RecyClass and/or UNE-EN 15343), an issue of great importance to ensure the chain of custody of the material and traceability.

Moreover, together with KIWA, we are accredited by ENAC so that companies can avoid or reduce the tax on non-reusable plastic packaging required by the Spanish Law 7/2022 on waste and contaminated soils for a circular economy, by carrying out audits.

• UNE-EN 15343: Recycling process and recycled content.
• RecyClass: Recycling process (formerly EuCertPlast) y and recycled content. Technological validations ( PP and PE films).
• Blue Angel: Post-consumer recycled content.
• Plastica Seconda Vita: Pre- and post-consumer recycling process.
• APR: Technological validations (PE films).