LONDON(ICIS)--Technology for chemicals recycling and other methods for utilising waste products as feedstocks continue to go from strength to strenghth,with nearly every week bringing news of a fresh innovation.Last week,INEOS Styrolution announced that it had managed to produce virgin polystyrene(PS)using recycled styrene monomer feedstocks,a milestone that sets one of the world’s largest producers of the material on the road to circular production.The question is how long that road will be,and whether it is a runway or an autobahn.Though a world first for INEOS Styrolution,the process remains at the laboratory scale at present.As with many of the flurry of new technologies under development,the company has expressed hopes of scaling up the technology,but it is a long way from the laboratory to a commercial-scale PS production complex,and timeframes envisaged by regulators to forge a truly circular economy are not forgiving.
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