OECD Global Forum on Environment - Plastics in a Circular Economy, 29-31 May 2018

1. Plastic2chemicals, Indaver’s sustainable
solution for end-of-life plastics
 Erik Moerman, Business Development Manager Industrial Waste Services - Indaver
 29 May 2018
 Copenhagen - Denmark

2. Indaver’s has a unique position
 through our leading position in the field of TOTAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
 Because we realise the CIRCULAR ECONOMY by investing in
 Indaver Molecule Management:
high valuable material recycling installations
 Indaver Energy Management:
heat for cities & industry
PREFERRED PARTNER IN EUROPE: 5 MIO T/Y WASTE MANAGED

3. Indaver Molecule Management (IMM)
Leading the field in sustainable waste management
WHAT
HOW
 isolating & recovering valuable molecules from waste
 through complex processes
 for high-quality feedstock to industry
 with energy recovery from the thermal process
for supply to nearby cities & industry
Build dedicated recycling units on (new) location
Build Add-ons to/revamp existing installations
Circular economy:
everybody talks about it,
we are DOING it
Heat from renewables
CO2-reduction
Producing high-quality
chemical feedstock
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ADDED
VALUE
with maximum industrial symbiosis
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4. The circular economy: we realise it today through
Indaver Molecule Management (materials)
In demo
Plastics2chemicals®
EU
2021
(100 mio €)
In construction
IndaChlor
Dunkirk - FR
2018
(50 mio €)
ARP
Ijmuiden- NL
2000
(15 mio €)
In operation
Precious metal
recovery
2017/8
LARGE SCALE SMALL SCALE

5. Need for revolution in recycling of plastic waste
post-consumer
plastic waste in
EU
26Million
Tons
39%
Waste to
energy
30%
Recycling
Landfill
31%
Almost pure mechanical recycling
25.8 Million tons of post
consumer plastics produced in
2015 in EU
With relative low share of
recycling rate
Source: EU

6. Why Indaver believes that timing is right
Europe ambition > 50%
recycling rate (in final recycling
process) of plastics waste by
2030…
… requiring new technologies
to reach these plastics
recycling rates
22.5%
50.0%
Today packaging 2030 target all plastic waste
Plastics
recycling
More than 90% of plastics today are produced from fossil fuel feedstock and plastics
production gives rise to approximately 400 mio T/Y of GHG emissions (2012) globally.
“The EU exports almost half of the plastics collected for
recycling.” Strategy on Plastics in a Circular Economy - 26/01/2017
… EU has a concentrated
plastic waste feedstock
available but 50 % is exported
“innovative technologies should be developed for processing
alternative feedstock, such as converting mixed plastic waste
into virgin polymers”
EU roadmap Strategy on Plastics in a Circular Economy - 26/01/2017
shift to fossil fuel feedstock with low C-numbers, increasing
demand on alternative high C- number feedstock
… and global changes in fossil
fuel feedstock driving interest
in P2C output
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7. Of the reported recycling, only 50 % has a high
revenue recycling solution
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 Low quality materials
 Partly low quality material
 High quality material
 High quality material
+- 1mio
tonnes
lower
revenue/
gate fee
+- 2 mio tonnes residues
… more pressure to calculate
recycling rates on volumes
effectively reprocessed …
"final recycling process" means the recycling process
which begins when no further sorting operation is needed
and waste materials are effectively reprocessed into
products, materials or substances;

8. Positioning P2C
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9. Plastics2chemicals:
Molecular recycling of plastics by thermal depolymerisation
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mixed polyolefines
not directly suitable
for mechanical
recycling light fraction
Gas
Own energy
heavy
fraction
 End product = chemical feedstock, no fuel
 Direct connection with users raw materials (> 1)
 Output mix to optimise total value
 Large scale at right location
 Technology specific to cope with impurities
 Smart logistics input and good pre-treatment
key conditions
medium
fraction
based on molecular
recycling
Depolymerisation plant

10. General technical concept
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Melting Decomposition Separation
Chemical
purification
Separation
Purifica-
tion
chemical
feedsctock

11. Typical polyolefin waste “impurities”
Auxiliary materials Additives Pollutants
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Foaming agents Softeners Food rests
Lubricants Anti-statics Glue
Anti-oxidants UV-stabilizers Mud
Heat stabilizers Fillers and strengtheners Artefacts
Release agents Colorants Foreign objects
Conservation agents Carbon
Flame retardants Stones
Fungicides Chemicals remainders
Reinforcement fibers Water
Metals (multi layer) Paper (labels)

12. Impurities abatement in process
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standard process extra utility cost
Halogens X X
Metals X
Mineral fillers X
Blowing agents X
Flame retardants (brominated) X X
Flame retardants (metalhydroxides) X
Heat stabilizers X
Colorants (old inorganic) X
Colorants (new organic) X
Antioxidants X
Mold release agents X
Multilayers X (metal) X (O, N, …)
Biomass X X

13. Process development: own full contnuous process for testing
To enhance the knowledge base on
plastics processing including: 1-
pre-treatment, 2-cracking and 3-
downstream processing in order
to design and construct a
plastics waste to chemicals
industrial plant. The focus will be
on plastics not suitable for
mechanical recycling avoiding
incineration thus improving plastics’
circular footprint.

14. Indaver P2C ICON project
Recycling
proces
feedstock to
applications
Collection
and
sorting
The main objective of the MATTER project is to develop a scientific (LCA) and market based (TEA) model that
can support the development of an optimal plastic waste management scheme, combining different sorting
and mechanical/thermochemical recycling technologies

15. Specific projects on more dedicated streams with
faster development process
Main project Demo project
Post consumer packaging waste:
Polyolefins mixture: PE + PP
Eg DKR 323 + 310, …
PS in dedicated plant: DKR 331
PE based
 specific sidestream recycling process
packaging waste
PS based
 specific sidestream recycling process
diverse PO streams for further testing
1st industrial scale operational
80 kt/yr H2 2021
operational
12 kt/yr H2 2020

16. Host site = Indaver Antwerp
Medipower
Future P2C demo site

17. Indaver, leading the field in sustainable waste management