Meet the Finalists
Join us in congratulating these five Finalists, who will be refining their solutions in preparation for an in-person pitch event at the New York Stock Exchange on November 29.
Blue Plastics B.V.
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Netherlands
CleanBlueTech: Solvent-Based Washing Technology that Enables Circular Use of Flexibles

CleanBlueTech is an innovative solvent-based washing technology that enables near-virgin quality re-granulates from used flexible films. It achieves 70% energy savings and uses no water for washing, resulting in maximum economic and environmental value. CleanBlueTech can be built into existing and new recycling lines world-wide to upgrade output quality.

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GAW Technologies GmbH
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Austria
Simplify Your Waste - An Ingenious Solution for A Multilayered Problem

The CreaSolv® Process is capable, depending on the solvent, of selectively dissolving polymers out of a waste stream of mixed postconsumer flexible packaging films. In the same process the polymer is purified, stabilised and converted into PCR pellets without thermal or mechanical degradation and for 100% re-use in film blowing.

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Impact Recycling Ltd
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United Kingdom
BOSS-2D & PRE Household Flexible Film Recycling Plant

A commercial scale 25,000 ton demonstrator BOSS-2D (Baffled Oscillation Separation System) household flexible film recycling plant in the UK. Our BOSS-2D technology is a water based, density separation technology that separates problematic multi-layer flexible films from mono-layer, enabling the recycling of the mono-layer into consumer-grade film using our Plastic Recycling Enhancer (PRE) additive to homogenise Melt Flow Index and re-colour.

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Mura Technology Limited
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United Kingdom
HydroPRS Chemical Recycling Process - Plastic Packaging Recycling Evaluation Plant

HydroPRS is the sector leading low carbon, high-yield, scalable 'chemical' recycling process generating hydrocarbon products for circular packaging, lubricants and bitumen from flexible, multilayered and food contact films. This 'evaluation plant' assesses flexible packaging recyclability, optimises commercial scale plant operational efficiency, and informs LCA for circularity and #NetZero stakeholder scrutiny.

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Nextek Ltd
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United Kingdom
COtooCLEAN Process: Recycling Polyolefin Films Back to Food Grade

COtooCLEAN is a waterless cleaning process for polyolefin films, based on low-pressure super-critical CO2 (scCO2) and green co-solvents. It removes oils, fats and printing inks, effectively decontaminating polyolefin films back to food-grade standards. It creates a circular solution to the largest plastic waste stream, boosting recycling and producing high-value recyclate.

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