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Where recycling is already being implemented today

Whether it’s automotive, household goods, footwear, or packaging—our Case Explorer showcases real-world projects across all loops, from mechanical recycled materials to full feedstock recycling. Select a technology, waste stream, or application - and discover how BASF is working with partners to drive the transition to a circular economy.

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Automotive
PA6
Solvent-Based Recycling
Welcome to the future of recycling: Solvent-Based Recycling
BASF, Mercedes-Benz, and Poeppelmann teamed up  to kick-off the next level in physical recycling: revamping the Polyamide 6 (PA6) fraction from the shredder residue of end-of-life vehicles (ASR). Using a special solvent-based recycling process, they turn this material into high-quality plastics that can be used in new car parts. Read more.
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Automotive
Depolymerization
PA6
Welcome to the Future of Recycling: PA6 Depolymerisation
BASF, Mercedes-Benz, and ZF Group have teamed up to do something pretty cool: demonstrating how even heavily used and contaminated plastic parts made from Polyamid 6 (PA6) can be recycled into virgin like polymer compounds at pilot scale using a recycling method called depolymerization. Normally, these parts would just get burned. Now? They get a second chance. Find out more.
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Automotive
Gasification
Turning Automotive Waste into Value with Gasification
How gasification turns automotive waste into quality materials, enabling circularity and defossilization in car manufacturing.
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In BASF’s ChemCycling™ project, plastic waste is transformed into pyrolysis oil using a thermochemical process. The oil can be fed in the BASF Verbund, replacing fossil resources. Using a mass balance approach, new products are manufactured with it. These have the same properties as products from fossil raw materials. BASF works together with partners such as Quantafuel, a startup headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Quantafuel is specialized in the pyrolysis of mixed plastic waste and the integrated purification of the resulting oil. Dr. Michael Bachtler (right), who is working on BASF’s ChemCycling™ project, and Rasmus Kærsgaard (left), Plant Director at Quantafuel in Quantafuel’s pyrolysis and purification plant in Skive, Denmark.
Pyrolysis
ChemCycling® 
Recycling plays an increasingly important role due to limited resources, growing sustainability requirements on the markets and regulatory developments.
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Landfill with large amounts of mixed waste.
Mechanical Recycling
Solutions for mechanical recycling
BASF offers a range of innovative solutions for mechanical plastics recycling from waste sorting to washing to improve the mechanical recycling process and to enhancing the quality of recycled polymeric materials with additives. We leverage the expertise of our partners like Sirmax to accelerate our journey towards a circular economy for plastics. 
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Closing the loop by recycling pu foam in old reridgerators
Depolymerization
Electronics and Electric
PU
PU fridge recycling
BASF has launched a new circular concept for recycling PU insulation materials in the appliance industry, collaborating with KraussMaffei and Rampf to develop an efficient chemical recycling process.
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BASF has developed loopamid, a 100% textile-to-textile recycled polyamide 6. Inditex has turned the material into a capsule jacket. Photo: Inditex
Depolymerization
PA6
Textiles
loopamid® designed for circular fashion
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The certified home-compostable biopolymer ecovio® can now be used to manufacture different barrier structures based on paper or plastic substrates for flexible packaging. Photo: BASF
Packaging
New ecovio® portfolio for flexible packaging: multiple barrier options combined with organic or paper recycling
BASF is expanding its certified compostable ecovio® portfolio with new grades that meet increasing recycling needs of flexible barrier packaging. The extended portfolio enables manufacturers of flexible packaging and brand owners to tailor barrier performance and end-of-life options like organics or paper recycling according to application functionalities, processing technologies and regulatory frameworks.
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Furniture
Mechanical Recycling
PU
BASF at UTECH 2024: Ready for the circular economy with sustainable recycling solutions for polyurethanes
BASF is presenting new concepts and recycling methods for polyurethanes at UTECH in Maastricht.
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Transforming Waste into Opportunity 

Together with partners worldwide, BASF is successfully implementing various circularity projects to address pressing environmental challenges, create a more sustainable future, and promote social development. 

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Alliance to end plastic waste
In January 2019, BASF co-founded the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) to solve the global plastic waste problem together with around 60 companies along the plastics value chain. The members invest in projects that aim to minimize plastic waste and remove it from the environment.
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