Dutch waste management company Renewi plans to enter into a long-term strategic cooperation which would see it produce feedstock for a chemical recycling plant being developed by Freepoint Eco-Systems International Ltd. In a joint announcement issued last Wednesday, the companies said the objectives of the partnership were to divert end-of-life plastics from incineration and to supply 80,000 tonnes of feedstock annually for Freepoint Eco-Systems' first European advanced recycling facility, which will be located at the Kluizendok site in Ghent, Belgium.
In the coming months, Renewi and Freepoint Eco-Systems would "work together to establish the pre-processing infrastructure" needed to supply feedstock for the pyrolysis-based chemical recycling plant in Ghent. The companies were exploring the development and co-investment of a new sorting facility that would "transform different end-of-life plastic sources into a consistent and high-quality feedstock", they said....
