Consortium Promotes “Transformative Vision” The Consortium for Waste Circularity, in conjunc- tion with the Flexible Packaging Association and the Packaging Engineering program at the Univer- sity of Florida, is working with packaging indus- try stakeholders to arrange for Robust Gasification testing of their “difficult to recycle,” but functionally valuable packaging materials. Packaging industry stakeholders have been successfully running trials through the Universi- ty of Florida for several months and the testing program is being expanded to all packaging in-
Waste Circularity is promoting a transformative vi- sion where mixed complex waste is converted to syn- gas, and then syngas is converted to “waste-derived” Eco-Methanol. The Consortium sees Eco-Methanol as the key for the packaging industry for achieving true circularity for all of its carbon-based packaging waste. Since methanol is a primary feedstock chem- ical for subsequent manufacture of many products and plastics, Eco-Methanol represents an opportu- nity to boost recovery of waste as well as “recycled content” in products and packaging. The Consortium refers to this circular process as Regenerative Robust Gasification.
dustry stakeholders. To date, multi-layer materials, metallized films, barrier films containing PVDC, cross-linked photo- polymer flexograph- ic plates and more have been shown to be successfully con- verted to synthesis gas (“syngas”). The Consortium for
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