By Nneka Nwogwugwu
Biofabrik, a German company based in Morocco has developed “WASTX,” a technology that transforms plastic waste into recycling oil.
The company held a beach cleanup last month in Imsouane in Morocco to raise awareness about plastic waste pollution in Morocco.
The cleanup, which was organized over the weekend in collaboration with the local hotel Olo Surf & Nature and Morocco’s Mika organization, had the participation of over 25 people.
In an interview with Morocco World News, Leonhard Meitner from Biofabrik company said that it took them over two and a half hours to finish cleaning an area of over 1.000 m2.
The participants then had to divide the trash into a plastic one which amounted to 151kg and plastic and aluminum which weighed 255kg.
As part of the global recycling industry, Biofabrik considers Morocco as “a great possible location for the chemical recycling plants to close the plastic loop worldwide,” Meitner noted.
WASTX, which Meitner’s company has been developing for over seven years, is a promising solution for the global plastic waste issues as it enables the transformation of problematic plastic waste into a recycling oil that gets back into the raw material cycle.
The plastic then becomes a valuable product. Meitner underlined, “we don’t burn the plastic waste. The gas that is being produced is utilized to cover the electricity requirements of the WASTX plant, so little CO2 emissions are being produced.”