Mechanical recycling

A large share of bioplastics produced today is mechanically recyclable. Biobased plastics that are chemically and physically identical to their fossil-based counterparts but made from biomass instead of fossil-based sources, are called drop-in materials, such as biobased PE or biobased PET. The only difference to their fossil-based equivalents is that the polymers are wholly or partly derived from biomass and feature a significantly lower carbon footprint than their conventional fossil-based alternative. The products made from these materials can be recycled in already well-established recycling streams alongside their fossil-based counterparts.