Top 20 Stories of 2020

#13 Anellotech’s technology converts Lay’s potato chip bag into key chemical required for plastic bottles

This hot story from 2020 was about how Anellotech successfully converted a Lay’s Barbeque Potato Chip (PepsiCo) bag into para-xylene, the primary chemical used to make virgin PET for beverage bottles, all by using its Plas-TCat Catalytic Pyrolysis technology which transforms mixed plastic waste directly into chemicals. The conversion also had high yields of benzene, toluene and olefins used to make a range of plastics, including polyethylene, polypropylene, nylon, ABS and polycarbonate.

What made it even more appealing to readers perhaps was the exclusive Digest interview with Anellotech’s CEO, David Sudolsky with details on the technology behind it, why and how this can help consumer good brand owners with ambitious recycled PET goals, what some of those PET-using brand goals are (like Pepsico, Coca-Cola, and others), and Anellotech’s plans for commercialization and expansion, and more.

More on the story, here.