Advanced Recycling Unlocks High-Value Applications

With increasing pressure from regulations and brand owners to incorporate more recycled content, the challenge is no longer about simply recycling more — but about recycling better.

How can recycled plastics meet the strict requirements of food contact, safety, and high-performance applications? This is where Advanced Recycling comes in.

Here’s where Advanced Recycling is creating real impact:

• • Food-grade Packaging Advanced Recycling is already being applied in real-world food packaging. Recent collaborations by SCGC — from working with Unilever on Knorr packaging to projects with Dow and Taokaenoi — show how hard-to-recycle, multi-layer plastic waste can be converted into food-grade recycled resin and brought back into packaging. This marks a key step toward closed-loop solutions in FMCG, even for complex materials.

• • Toys & Baby Products Products in this category demand high material safety and consistent quality. Advanced Recycling helps enable recycled plastics with reduced contaminants and stable quality, making them more suitable for applications where reliability is critical.

• • Medical Applications Advanced Recycling enables materials with improved purity and consistency suitable for non-invasive medical packaging, such as packaging films, blister packs, or protective layers.

• • Safety & Performance-critical Parts In applications where performance and safety are critical, materials need to be strong, stable, and consistent, and Advanced Recycling helps enable recycled content in these applications without compromising quality or reliability.