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EPS box for fresh salmon made with BASF's chemically recycled plastics

Source：Adsale Plastics Network Date ：2022-01-06 Editor ：JK

In collaboration, three companies have demonstrated how to apply the ChemCycling project for fish box products. BASF is as a raw material supplier for EPS while VARTDAL PLAST converts the material beads into filet fish boxes, and then Bremnes Seashore uses the fish boxes for the transport of some of its high-quality salmon brand BÖMLO in late 2021.

Thanks to its manufacturing process, BASF's Styropor Ccycled material has the same properties as conventional Styropor. This maintains the very good packaging properties such as thermal insulation and pressure-resistance with good buckling stiffness and stacking stability, which are essential to keep fish cool and safe at the same time.

In the production of the packaging foams that have become so well-known over the last 70 years, pyrolysis oil replaces fossil raw materials. BASF sources this oil from technology partners who use a thermochemical process called pyrolysis to transform post-consumer plastic waste that would otherwise be used for energy recovery or go to landfill into this secondary raw material. BASF then uses the oil at the very beginning of the value chain to manufacture new plastics and other products.

BÖMLO salmon filets packed with BASF's Styropor Ccycled.

Since recycled and fossil raw materials are mixed in BASF’s production Verbund and cannot be distinguished from each other, the recycled portion is allocated to Styropor Ccycled using a mass balance approach. Both the allocation process and the product itself, have been certified by an independent auditor.

In addition, a certified Life Cycle Assessment evaluating the environmental performance of the product concludes, that compared with conventional Styropor, at least 50% of CO2 is saved in the production of Styropor Ccycled.

“We are very proud of the ChemCycling project with Bremnes Seashore on EPS fish boxes and we are happy to have helped our customer to progress on his sustainability path,” said Klaus Ries, head of BASF’s styrenics business in Europe.

Also, for the converter VARTDAL PLAST, Styropor Ccycled brings advantages as the product is identical to virgin material. Therefore, the production process does not have to be adjusted. The company and their products are certified according to the ecoloop certification programme, confirming that 100 % recycled material was used as feedstock.