A joint research pilot aims to chemically recycle the African country’s growing textile waste into reusable raw materials
ACCRA – Researchers from Ghana and Germany, have advanced plans to establish a pilot facility in Ghana capable of chemically recycling polyethylene terephthalate (PET) textile and plastic waste into reusable monomers.
The process can convert PET-containing textile and plastic waste – including coloured and multilayer composites previously considered unrecyclable – back into terephthalic acid and monoethylene glycol, the primary feedstocks for new PET production, with claimed conversion rates of up to 97%.
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