"Our plant serves as a blue print for how sustainability works today and tomorrow," says Kai Hoyer, Managing Director of Source One Plastics "With our modern and efficient recycling recycling technology, we are achieving a real milestone in the circular economy." The system modular design and is therefore technically so flexible that it can control process lines individually and can process material streams of different recyclable materials. This is made possible by a degree of digitalization and automation: each station in the system transmits process and material data in real time. material data in real time. This means that the processes are continuously coordinated with each other. In this way This way, the Source One Plastics recycling plant is expected to turn 60,000 tons of so-called post-consumer waste into valuable plastic raw materials every year. This makes it one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

“Creating recycling capacity for hard-to-recycle plastic waste,” says Matthijs Beijk, Vice President EMEAI Feedstock & Mechanical Recycling at LyondellBasell. “With its innovative technology, Source One Plastics will make an important contribution here by providing valuable material for chemical and mechanical recycling, enabling the production of new plastics from these materials. new plastics from these materials.” From the fourth quarter of 2023, the first plant for Source One Plastics is set to recycle the plastic waste from around 1.5 million German citizens annually for one hundred percent recyclability. recyclability. With its modern, bright and transparent architecture, it will use the latest technologies for the circular economy and help shape them in part.

Sustainability is one of the core objectives of Source One Plastics. “Plastics processing is very energy energy-intensive,” says Kai Hoyer. “That's why we have arranged existing technologies in such a way that we can that we can save five to six million kilowatt hours per year in Eicklingen thanks to our dry material processing. kilowatt hours per year due to our dry material processing. It was also important to us to operate the plant with renewable energies.” Eicklingen offered ideal conditions for this project. A A local biogas plant and a wind farm on site were decisive for Source One Plastics in addition to logistical aspects were decisive for the choice of location. “The fact that Source One Plastics is a highly innovative company with globally active partners from the recycling industry is settling in Eicklingen fills us with pride,” says Jörn Schepelmann, Mayor of Eicklingen. “The talks have been very constructive since the beginning. So We are hoping for a long-term partnership and a very successful establishment in our community.” The operation of the recycling plant is expected to create up to thirty jobs for the region be created.