FAQ

What is Ecoplastomer®?

Ecoplastomer® is circular thermoplastic material made only from post-consumer recycled plastic and recycled tyre rubber crumb or recycled EPDM:

  1. ∙ 100% recycled content
  2. ∙ Crude Oil-Free Innovation
  3. ∙ No chemical additives = easy recycling
  4. ∙ Mechanically bonded for perpetual circularity
  5. ∙ Significant сarbon footprint reduction

Our material is not merely a product, it is a solution to the ecological challenges we face today.

Ecoplastomers are offered in nine distinct categories, providing our customers with a choice tailored to their specific needs and preferences.

What are Ecoplastomers suitable for?

Our innovative circular materials are utilized across a wide range of industries, matching the performance of traditional thermoplastics. These sectors include automotive, construction, home and garden, outdoor playgrounds, sports equipment, storage solutions, and many others.

The granules of Ecoplastomer® provide excellent hardness and strength, making them ideal for demanding outdoor applications. This durability ensures that products made from our material can withstand harsh environmental conditions while maintaining their integrity and performance.

We continuously test Ecoplastomers for diverse implementation and various manufacturing technologies.

Why should our company use Ecoplastomer® instead of other available products on the market?

Ecoplastomers have no match in the world. Thanks to our patented technology of mechanically blending recycled plastic with recycled tyre rubber or recycled EPDM, and the complete absence of chemical additives, our materials achieve full circularity. This innovative approach not only makes our materials unique but also ensures their sustainability and recyclability.

By integrating the first-of-its-kind circular thermoplastics into your products, your enterprise will effectively meet its sustainability objectives, reduce its carbon footprint, and make a substantial contribution to the circular economy. This adoption underscores your commitment to environmental responsibility and positions your brand as a leader in sustainable innovation.

The circularity of Ecoplastomer® offers economic advantages for production processes. The elimination of waste and the efficiency of the rapid material injection process not only enhance productivity but also result in significant energy savings. This means you can achieve higher output with lower resource consumption, thereby maximizing both environmental and economic benefits.

Moreover, our materials enable compliance with EU-wide and increasingly global mandates for incorporating reusable content into newly manufactured products. By utilizing our circular thermoplastic materials your company will meet those requirements.

What financial savings can a company achieve by using Ecoplastomers?

Because the material can be recycled multiple times, you can reinvest already manufactured products back into production. This not only reduces the need for new raw materials but also significantly lowers overall production costs. Each recycling cycle maintains the material’s high quality, ensuring that your products retain their strength and durability through multiple uses.

Moreover, every grain of the material can be returned to the production process, enabling you to achieve zero waste production. This means that scrap and leftover materials from the manufacturing process can be collected, reprocessed, and reused, eliminating waste and maximizing resource efficiency.

Our tests* demonstrate that the material reduces injection times, leading to higher productivity and more efficient energy use. The quicker injection times not only increase the number of units produced per hour but also lower the energy consumption per unit, resulting in cost savings over time.

*The tests were conducted using Ecoplastomer® PP-70.

Why do you say that using circular products, such as Ecoplastomers, saves money?

Manufacturers are able to considerably reduce manufacturing costs by using circular materials, because the materials can be re-used multiple times. You therefore spend less on them.

For example: if you buy Ecoplastomer® to inject a garden chair for your customers, and eventually the garden chair is not fit for use anymore, you can ask the customer to bring the chair back to you and sell them a new one at a discount, because you are getting the raw material back. You can then take the old chair, shred it and re-inject into a new one.

If you decide to do it for 5 cycles, your costs will be as follows:

1x cost of raw material + 5x manufacturing cost.

If we assume that the cost of raw material is 1 and the manufacturing cost is 1, the end cost of your chair will be as follows:

1x raw material + 5x manufacturing costs = 6 / 5 production cycles = 1.2 final cost

Circular economy often requires changes of our current business models. However, the above example of implementing Ecoplastomers shows that circular economy is not only a great saving for the environment but also a great cost saving for manufacturers.

How many tons can you produce per year?

The pilot line in Gdynia has a production capacity of 3,000 tons per year. Our business model focuses on expanding this capacity by constructing a large-scale plant by the end of 2025, which will enable us to initially produce 20,000 tons, eventually going up to 100,000 tons annually.

What ecological value does your circular thermoplastics have and how does it impact the environment?

Ecoplastomer® impacts the environment in several key ways:

  1. ∙ Reduction in CO₂ Emissions: production of Ecoplastomer emits up to 69% less CO₂ equivalent compared to virgin plastomers per kilogram. This substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions helps mitigate climate change and contributes to a cleaner atmosphere.
  2. ∙ Reduction in Oil Excavation: our materials are made solely from recycled plastic and recycled rubber crumb, completely eliminating the need for virgin crude oil. By replacing 1 million tons (1Mt) of traditional thermoplastics with Ecoplastomer®, we can reduce oil excavation by 2.5 million tons per year. This decreases the environmental impact associated with oil extraction, including habitat destruction, oil spills, and air pollution.
  3. ∙ Reintroducing Recycled Plastic: we are committed to reintroducing 100,000 tons of recycled plastic into the economy by 2030 through our innovative material. This not only reduces plastic waste in landfills and oceans but also promotes a more sustainable use of resources.
  4. ∙ Full Circularity and Waste Reduction: Ecopolplast offers thermoplastic materials that intersect full circularity, waste reduction, and independence from fossil fuels. Our material can be recycled multiple times, ensuring that it remains part of a closed-loop system that minimizes waste and maximizes resource efficiency.
How does Ecopolplast select suppliers of raw materials?

The production process of Ecoplastomers starts with the meticulous selection of local suppliers, ensuring that our environmental footprint is minimized to the absolute minimum.

To guarantee consistent top quality, we strictly adhere to industry standards and implement rigorous raw material control processes that we follow in our own laboratory.

This allows us to create thermoplastics with recycled content that meet industry standards and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 69%.

How does your company ensure the quality of materials?

We guarantee the consistent quality of Ecoplastomers by sourcing raw materials from reliable suppliers and performing thorough laboratory testing.

Throughout every stage of the manufacturing process, we carry out extensive testing and quality assessments in our own laboratory. This ensures that our innovative thermoplastic materials not only meet stringent mechanical property standards but also adhere to demanding ecological regulations.