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Company The eFurnace
demonstration plant at BASF ’ s Ludwigshafen site

“ This is why I love BASF so much . Sustainability is always at the heart of everything we do ”

MIA PETTERSSON VP OF SPECIALTY POLYMERS , PERFORMANCE MATERIALS , BASF packaging waste , this process creates products from this waste on an industrial scale .
This happens through a thermochemical process called pyrolysis which transforms plastic waste into pyrolysis oil . This oil can be fed into BASF ’ s production network at the beginning of the value chain , substituting fossil resources and contributing to circularity .
ChemCycling ® comes with promise and , again , contradiction . Pyrolysis is a more sustainable approach due to its substitution of fossil feedstock and role in enabling plastic recyclability , but it ’ s
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