Precycling: Waste to plastics resource pathways

Precycling: Waste to plastics resource pathways The PRecycling project aims to recover high-quality polymeric materials from underutilized plastic waste streams, focusing on developing near-production-scale recycling processes to transform plastic waste into secondary raw materials, and enabling up to 100% recycled content incorporation in new products. Plastic waste from consumer electronics and electrical equipment (WEEE), toys, and textiles represents a key underutilized source of secondary raw materials in Europe. The PRecycling project, in response to stricter resource and climate targets, develops near-production-scale recycling processes to recover high-quality polymeric materials (recyclates) from these waste streams. The main goal is to transform plastic waste into secondary raw materials of sufficient quality to re-enter product value chains, supporting both closed- and open-loop circular models while leveraging digital product passports (DPP) to enhance traceability. Through advanced sorting, purification, decontamination, and reprocessing, PRecycling enables the recovery of high-purity polymer fractions (e.g. HIPS, ABS, PP, PET, PA), achieving up to 100% recycled content incorporation in new applications, unlocking the urban mining potential of plastic waste and setting the foundation for more transparent and resilient circular value chains.