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inside at... Samsara Eco
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without fossil fuel feedstocks.
This means we can stop depending
on fossil fuel resources
to make virgin-quality plastic, "
said Burtenshaw-Davies. " And
we can do it at market recycled
price, making it a feasible option
for businesses. "
Price parity? How?
The depolymerisation process
developed by Samsara
is significantly faster than
the processes developed by
competitor companies, where
degradation can take up to 24
hours. The enzymes can also be
reused in a continuous process.
Samsara Eco off ers another
unique selling point compared
with other chemical recycling
technologies: the process has a
low carbon footprint, unlike the
resource- and energy-intensive
technologies that require the
use of large quantities of external
heat and pressure.
" Part of the whole Samsara
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raised some AU$56 million
(about €34.8 million).
Enzymatic technology
makes infinite recycling
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possible
The technology has been developed
by Samsara Eco in an incredibly
short span of time, and
this has not gone unnoticed.
In the brief two years of its existence,
the company has won
various awards, including the
Energy and Renewables category
at the InnovationAus 2022
Awards for Excellence, where it
also nabbed the title of Australian
Hero; and the 2022 Banksia
Foundation's Ignite Award for a
'technology that contributes to
the development and well-being
of human needs and institutions
while respecting the
world's natural resources and
regenerative capacity'.
The company's proposition
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explains the enthusiasm: " Enzymatic
technology means you
can recycle plastic waste back
to its original monomers, to create
recycled plastic that is indistinguishable
from virgin plastic,
Eco agenda when it was first
formed was the idea that there's
no point in solving the plastic
crisis if we're going to contribute
to the climate crisis. Our
mission is to deliver climate repair
through infinite plastic recycling, "
said Burtenshaw-Davies.
" The
carbon in waste plastic
will remain in the plastic economy
with our technology. It's not
being downcycled or taken out
of circulation or released into
the atmosphere. It enables us to
sever our dependence on fossil
fuels and virgin manufacturing, "
Burtenshaw-Davies said.
The company has done a life
cycle assessment showing that
the carbon footprint of its resins
is significantly lower than for
virgin plastic. It is not yet sharing
the figures as the LCA still
has to be peer-reviewed.
A platform technology
Recycling waste plastic, however,
involves more than just
breaking it down into its constituent
monomers alone. Contamination,
diff erent types of
plastic, diff erent colours, additives
- how does the technology
developed by Samsara
handle these?
" Our technology recycles
plastics that traditionally have
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