The material is a groundbreaking material composed of 100% recycled polyolefin pellets. We extract a blend of Polyethylenes (PE) and Polypropylenes (PP) from post-consumer metalised multi-layered plastic packaging (MLP) – waste that’s often considered “impossible to recycle.”
its can be used by itself, or blended with other virgin / recycled PP and/or PE polymers to attain the properties that you require. You can do it, or we can compound it for you as well.
Flexible & Durable: Ability to bend, stretch, and conform to different shapes without breaking. The material has the perfect combination of rigidity and flexibility.
Smooth & Coatable: The material is smooth and soft to touch, and can be coated with almost any type of colour with any type of finish (matte and glossy) without losing its flexibility. Printing and/or lasering of text is also possible conventionally.
Lightweight: Ideal for applications requiring reduced weight.
Floats: Buoyant in various water environments.
100% Recycled Materials: Made from MLP waste, of which less than 1% is recycled globally. This can be blended with other virgin / recycled PP and/or PE polymers to attain the properties that you require – you can do it, or we can do it for you as well.
Locally Sourced Waste: This is post-consumer waste sourced locally, further reducing the carbon footprint of transportation and time-related spoilage of waste.
Lower Carbon Footprint: Significant avoidance of CO2 compared to virgin materials like virgin PP, PE, PET, etc.
Material Recyclability & End-of-Life: Initial tests suggest that this material can be recycled by conventional methods at least 10 times without losing properties and can be recycled in polyethylene or polypropylene streams due to purity and compatibilisers. This sounds too good to be true, so we are working on validating and replicating this, but early signs are good.
Social Impact: Empowers former waste-pickers, doubling their income and not just providing them with benefits, but showing them how to use it. there are 1.5-4 million waste-pickers who live multi-dimensionally poor lives. Our recycling process is built in such a way that 50-75% of it can be done by former waste-pickers. We train and formalize them into our supply chains, giving them dignified jobs. We also pay a premium for procuring waste to 12-14 women waste-pickers who run a scrap-shop (truly additional income as no one else really buys this waste).
We can edit the material to modify its key parameters like Melt Flow Index (MFI) and basic Mechanical Properties (Modulus, Elongation and Tensile Strength) within a range.
We do this by tweaking additives and blending it with other recycled polymers or virgin polymers as required.
Our material can there work in the following manufacturing methods:
The customizability allows this material to have a wide range of applications. Here are some potential applications:
Use our material in your products to be to reduce your carbon footprint, without compromising on quality. Plus, we can customize/edit/blend this material for you to get to your desired properties.
Contact us for a baseline Technical Data Sheet (TDS) and to explore how we can work together.