Sorting of PLA in mixed plastic recycling is NOW possible
Problem solved, this advancement in technology blows away previous objections citing that PLA contaminates the waste stream. Watch the video below from #TotalEnergies and Tomra showing how easily it is to sort PLA from oil based plastics using Near Infra Red Technology (NIR), proving that PLA will not contaminate other recycling streams. By collecting used PLA products from closed-loop systems and pre-consumer waste TotalEnergies Corbion is aiming to use it as feedstock to cr