LG Chem's Plant Converts 10 Tons of Plastic into 8 Tons of Oil

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LG Chem (LG Chemical) is a South Korea based chemical company, it’s the largest of its type in the country with its headquarters at Seoul.

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One of the main aims of the company is to integrate environmental awareness into society, and thus work environmental values into individual lives.

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LG Chem has always worked to reduce the carbon footprint and they have been doing so by producing environmentally friendly raw materials and bringing innovation in processes.

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Last year, LG Chem had a groundbreaking breakthrough concerning the avoidance of plastic pollution, by producing the country’s first ever supercritical pyrolysis oil, making it into a ceremony inside an industrial complex at Dangjin.

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This was in aim to establish a circular economy for plastics and thereby producing raw materials made completely of recycled plastic wastes.

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LG Chem thus established a commercial plant for pyrolysis of plastic that would turn plastic waste into raw materials, where most of the waste is recycled and the rest is used as by-product gas to help in the factory.

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This plant brought to the limelight the problems of the mechanical recycling process, which due to its crushing mechanism cannot process the plastic entirely.

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LG Chem thus uses the process of chemical recycling, which can process the plastic in its entirety, for it uses chemical reaction to break it down and redistribute the new raw material to perform other works.

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The plant produces “Circular Balanced” products which hold the certification and adheres to the growing regulations around the globe, thus recycling plastic without compromising the quality.

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