"tykundegex" clarifies P2O plastic waste feedstock vs. recyclable plastic

I think you're confusing "waste plastic" with "recyclable plastic", which is a common mistake but an important one to clarify.

For example, I know of many plastic recycling companies in the UK, France, and Spain who sell plastic to China -- lots of it. And they are very interested in P2O as it compliments their business. Yes, compliments. The plastic re-sold to China is the high grade sorted and clean stuff (or high enough quality to be sorted and cleaned in China)... the stuff that gets remelted into pellets and re-molded into plastic objects. i.e. RECYCLED.

There is a whole parallel stream that communities and industry has -- the stuff nobody wants (see other replied to your message for stats ... the numbers are roughly the same in Europe). Reticulated plastic (cannot be reformed), off-cuts of PVC mixed with fire retardants, unsortable plastic with heterogenous composition, food packaging waste that is typically never recycled at all, etc. THAT is the market for Plastic2Oil, and it's huge.

And the recyclers want IN because it allows them to leverage the relationship they have with industry and communities -- to reach farther down the value chain and take a larger percentage of plastic discard. They have the infrastructure (facilities, staff, transportation, etc.) already in-place to operate P2O, and have easy access to large amounts of free waste plastic.

So you need to understand that the plastic shipped to China is NOT the same stuff that would go into the P2O process. P2O deals with the untradeable .. the landfilled (or incinerated) plastics!!

Tykün