Spinning Contaminated PET Waste into Technical Grade Staple Fibers

AI Quick Summary

Sustainability is becoming more and more important in our everyday life as well as in many industries. Recycling as well as design for sustainability are becoming key elements for the development of new products targeting a very low carbon footprint. PET is a very versatile, known and established material used in many different applications with an extremely high recyclability grade. Its recyclability depends however on its purity level, recycling technology and on the final application. ChallengeWe would like to explore current technological limits and new possibilities to be able to recycle in an full efficient way PET based material, when PET is not coming from pure sources, but it is contaminated with different polymers. PET matrix >70%Contamination with polyolefin up to 20%, PA up to 20%, cotton and other fiber up to 10%.Typical fiber can be staple fibers with 6.7 dtex, crimp, solid or hollow.Fiber ready for technical nonwovenLCA: cradle-to-gate with very low, potentially zero, carbon emission. Implementation Partner: AutoneumAutoneum is the global market and technology leader in acoustic and thermal management for vehicles and partner for automobile manufacturers around the world. The Company develops and produces components that enhance a quiet and comfortable driving experience with a low environmental impact at the same time. Pitching WorkshopEverybody who is interested to submit an idea for this challenge is invited to an online pitching workshop. More details can be found in the "Events" section further below.Submission and Funding ProcessIt only takes you a couple of minutes to submit your ideas which help to solve this challenge.The most promising ideas will be turned into projects and supported with up to CHF 25'000 by the Innovation Booster Plastics for Zero Emission.Submission deadline for ideas: 14 October 2022, 23:59More details on the funding process and on how to submit your idea can be found in the guidelines linked below.ContactIf you have any further questions regarding this call for ideas, please contact us at info@plastics4zeroemission.ch

Challenge Metadata

• Challenge Name: Spinning Contaminated PET Waste into Technical Grade Staple Fibers
• Date: 9/5/2022 7:19:45 AM
• Administrators:
  • Theo Sandu

Challenge Description

Sustainability is becoming more and more important in our everyday life as well as in many industries. Recycling as well as design for sustainability are becoming key elements for the development of new products targeting a very low carbon footprint.

PET is a very versatile, known and established material used in many different applications with an extremely high recyclability grade. Its recyclability depends however on its purity level, recycling technology and on the final application.

Challenge

We would like to explore current technological limits and new possibilities to be able to recycle in an full efficient way PET based material, when PET is not coming from pure sources, but it is contaminated with different polymers.

• PET matrix >70%
• Contamination with polyolefin up to 20%, PA up to 20%, cotton and other fiber up to 10%.
• Typical fiber can be staple fibers with 6.7 dtex, crimp, solid or hollow.
• Fiber ready for technical nonwoven
• LCA: cradle-to-gate with very low, potentially zero, carbon emission.

Implementation Partner: Autoneum

Autoneum is the global market and technology leader in acoustic and thermal management for vehicles and partner for automobile manufacturers around the world.

The Company develops and produces components that enhance a quiet and comfortable driving experience with a low environmental impact at the same time.

Pitching Workshop

Everybody who is interested to submit an idea for this challenge is invited to an online pitching workshop. More details can be found in the "Events" section further below.

Submission and Funding Process

It only takes you a couple of minutes to submit your ideas which help to solve this challenge.

The most promising ideas will be turned into projects and supported with up to CHF 25'000 by the Innovation Booster Plastics for Zero Emission.

Submission deadline for ideas: 14 October 2022, 23:59

More details on the funding process and on how to submit your idea can be found in the guidelines linked below.

Contact

If you have any further questions regarding this call for ideas, please contact us at info@plastics4zeroemission.ch