Recycling plastics
Recycling plastics
In this project, hard plastics like garden chairs, buckets, crates, and pipes are recycled into high-quality raw materials for new products. This process significantly reduces CO₂ emissions by avoiding incineration and providing a sustainable alternative to new fossil-based plastics.
In this project, hard plastics like garden chairs, buckets, crates, and pipes are recycled into high-quality raw materials for new products. This process significantly reduces CO₂ emissions by avoiding incineration and providing a sustainable alternative to new fossil-based plastics.
Large hard plastic items from construction and household waste are collected at the recycling facility in Biddinghuizen, Flevoland (the Netherlands). The plastic waste is sorted into about twenty types, then washed, cleaned, and shredded into raw materials for high-quality new products. The project operates in a completely circular manner, with even the process water being purified and reused in a closed-loop system. This inspiring Dutch project is open for visits, allowing you to see and experience the tangible impact firsthand!
A circular economy helps reduce carbon emissions through more efficient use of materials, reuse, and recycling. However, only 7% of the global economy is currently circular. Many promising circular initiatives struggle to take off and sustain, including the recycling of bulky rigid plastics. A significant amount of this plastic waste is still incinerated, as it is often cheaper than recycling. In this Dutch recycling project, bulky rigid plastics are recycled and reused as alternatives to new, polluting plastics. The project supports the development of recycling infrastructure and the circular economy. By investing in carbon credits from this local initiative, you ensure more plastic waste is recycled. Your contribution makes a real impact by reducing carbon emissions and promoting efficient material use.
ORCA has successfully guided this innovative project through the carbon credit accreditation process. Once fully certified by the Stichting Nationale Koolstofmarkt, ORCA has started to sell the project's carbon credits. The avoided CO2 emissions have been mapped by TNO and are monitored and verified by DNV, ensuring you receive fair and high-quality certificates.
By investing in this project, you accelerate the transition to a circular economy, where raw materials are used as efficiently as possible and waste is given a second life through recycling.
The circular economy is recognized as an important part of the solution to limit global warming. This project reduces carbon emissions by avoiding plastic waste incineration and the production of fossil-based plastics.
The project stimulates the development of recycling infrastructure in the Netherlands and creates local employment opportunities in both research and development (R&D) and operations. Additionally, it provides opportunities for people who are distanced from the labor market.
