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BASF, BEST, and partners in the automotive industry successfully complete pilot project on chemical recycling
The COMET Competence Center BEST – Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH has successfully completed a pilot project for BASF SE on recycling mixed waste from end-of-life vehicles. The pilot project demonstrates the recyclability of high-performance plastics from automotive shredder residues (ASR) together with renewable raw materials. This mixture of plastic, film, paint, and foam residues is so complex that it can currently only be thermally recycled. The pilot project shows that these automotive wastes can be recycled through gasification, a special type of chemical recycling, and returned to automobile production.
