The Dutch Ministry of Climate and Green Growth (RVO) has funded a project by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands, and the start-up Exergy to develop “AI-enhanced” solvent-based plastic recycling.

The RVO project “AI-Strap: Accelerating Circular Plastics with Solvent-Based Recycling Intelligence” aims to tackle complex waste streams such as multilayer plastic packaging. This type of packaging cannot be recycled with current technologies.

“Multilayer plastics present a major challenge for recycling,” says project lead Željko Tomović of the TU/e Polymer Performance Materials group.

For example, the thin plastic protecting produce from rotting is “extremely” hard to recycle, as it consists of multiple layers of different polymers.

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