LESS IS MORE Reduction of waste and greenhouse gas emissions
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ircular economy means decoupling growth from resource consumption. BASF aims at moving towards a circular economy, among others, by increasingly using recycled and renewable feedstocks. Made from these two new circular feedstocks, BASF now also offers plasticizers.
network at the beginning of the value chain and then allocated to selected sales products according to a third-party certified mass balance approach. These sales products carry the name suffix “Ccycled™”. BASF now offers its trusted non-phthalate plasticizer Hexamoll® DINCH also as Hexamoll® DINCH CcycledTM.
Plasticizers made from chemically recycled plastic waste
Plasticizers made from renewable raw materials
With its ChemCycling™ project, BASF is aiming to manufacture products from chemically recycled plastic waste on an industrial scale. BASF cooperates with partners, who use a thermochemical process called pyrolysis to transform plastic waste into a secondary raw material - pyrolysis oil. This oil is fed into BASF’s production
Another method is the so-called biomass balance (BMB) approach. Here, renewable raw materials such as bio-naphtha or biogas derived from organic waste or vegetable oils are fed in at the beginning of BASF’s production network and are allocated to certain sales products according to a third-party certified mass balance
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