Energy solutions company in Canada, Klean Industries plans to collaborate with Dow in a bid to back Dow's drive to enhance the sustainability profile of plastic packaging in North America.
The companies have extended a three year letter of intent for collaboration in technologies, knowledge and resources aimed at providing solutions for end-of-life mixed plastics.
Aimed at recovering energy, chemicals and oil from end-of-life waste plastics, the collaboration will make it possible to develop low impact recovery facilities across North America.
Klean's thermal conversion technology developed and used commercially in Japan is said to capture the inbuilt value in oil rich packaging plastics.
Recently, Dow along with Klean has visited Japan's plastics-to-oil recycling facility, which processes mixed plastics, including plastics such as PET and PVC at up to 20% of the in-feed supply, while producing over 4MWe of green electricity simultaneously.
According to Klean, there is potential for many such facilities globally, as millions of tons of plastic ends up at landfill currently.
