Infinity Recycling

♻ Kicking Off with Polystyvert! ♻ After our investment announcement in July, last week marked a significant milestone: our first board meeting at Polystyvert. What made this even more special? The chance to explore their advanced recycling facility—an all-in-one site featuring a lab, pilot plant, and demo plant. This site is impressive because Polystyvert has perfected their dissolution technology, applying it to two advanced recycling solutions: one for Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) and Polystyrene (PS) and more recently for Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS). A huge thank you to the team at Polystyvert for the warm welcome and insightful tour. We’re thrilled to be part of Polystyvert’s journey and look forward to their continued success! Have you had the chance to visit an advanced recycling facility? Tell us about your experience below. #Sustainability #Innovation #Recycling 

🌟 Infinity Recycling and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University: Reflecting on our Recent Collaboration! 🌟 Over the past few weeks, two talented teams from Rotterdam School of Management brought fresh perspectives and ideas to Infinity Recycling as part of their MBA program. This collaboration has been a wonderful opportunity to involve students in our goal of transforming the plastic industry into a circular economy. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: 🔍𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬: The first team of students conducted in-depth market research, successfully analyzing over 200 companies based on the key mandate factors of the fund, utilising various AI tools. 💡𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: The second team worked on matching the fund’s mandate with the EU circularity regulation, focusing on several countries to analyze where portfolio companies could benefit and why. A huge thank you to Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Nicolas Constantinesco for guiding the project, and Marco Torres Delgado, Agung Rama Putera, Cristina Gavidia Aranda, Pooja Sheoran, Wan Hsin(Ivy) C., Beatriz Valenzuela, Manasa Sriram, Yange Liu, and Renzo Zorogastúa for their outstanding work. Lastly, thank you to Infinity Recycling team members Nicky van 't Hof and Jan-Willem Muller for providing mentorship and support throughout the project.  Are you part of a company or educational institution that would like to collaborate on a joint project? Let us know below! #ImpactInvesting #Collaboration #SocialImpact 

🌍♻️ Understanding the Plastic Recycling Codes! ♻️🌍    When taking out the trash, most of us have thought: What do all these numbers mean in my plastic products?!    Navigating the world of plastic recycling can be daunting, but understanding the recycling codes can make it simpler and more effective. Here’s a quick guide to the different types of plastic and of Infinity Recycling’s pioneering portfolio companies that are transforming almost all these materials through advanced recycling once they reach their end of life:  ♻️ 1 (PET): Found in bottles and containers. DePoly and Ioniqa Technologies recycle PET into raw chemicals.  ♻️ 2 (HDPE): Used in jugs and bottles. BioBTX, Pryme, Clariter, and Itero convert HDPE into bio-oils through Pyrolysis  ♻️ 3 (PVC): Found in piping and flooring. We hope to explore this in the future!  ♻️ 4 (LDPE): Seen in bags and tubing. BioBTX, Pryme, Clariter, and Itero also recycle LDPE.  ♻️ 5 (PP): Used in straws and caps. BioBTX, Pryme, Clariter, and Ioniqa Technologies convert PP into virgin-grade plastic.  ♻️ 6 (PS): Found in coffee cups and cutlery. Polystyvert recycles PS into virgin-grade products.  ♻️ 7 (Other): Includes Polycarbonate, Nylon, and Mixed Plastics. Polystyvert processes these materials too!  Does this make recycling codes easier to understand? Let us know your thoughts below. This is a great first step to enabling a circular economy in plastics recycling: precisely what we at Infinity Recycling strive to do!    #Recycling #Sustainability #PlasticWaste #ChemicalRecycling #CircularEconomy #Innovation

🌱 Circularity Series: From Aromatics to Sustainable Construction, Explained 🏗️  Let's dive into an incredible cycle that turns a basic chemical into a key material for construction, all while having the potential for recycling and sustainability. Here’s how it works: 1️⃣ Aromatics: Aromatics are organic compounds which are essential building blocks in the chemical industry. They make up everyday items such as plastics, dyes, and pharmaceuticals. 2️⃣ Derivatives: These are the 'second stage' to what aromatics are converted to before materials. We can use styrene as an example, which is an essential component of rubber, insulation materials and fiberglass. 3️⃣ Expanded Polystyrene (EPS): EPS is a lightweight, rigid foam made by expanding polystyrene beads. It’s known for its excellent insulation properties. It is commonly seen in packaging materials, disposable coffee cups, and protective packaging for electronics. 4️⃣ Construction and Buildings: In this context, EPS is widely used in the construction industry for insulation boards, lightweight fill material, and structural insulated panels (SIPs). This ensures energy-efficient homes and buildings, keeping interiors warm in winter and cool in summer. 5️⃣ Recycling back!: This is where Infinity Recycling is proud to come in! Polystyvert allows for post-use EPS, like when buildings are taken down, to be recycled into new EPS products, reducing waste and conserving resources. Alternatively, EPS and plastic waste can be chemically recycled back to its basic components through a technology like BioBTX's, creating a circular economy!    Understanding a product's life cycle and encouraging innovation to expand and strengthen this cycle is exactly what we at Infinity Recycling advocate for! Here's to building a more sustainable future!🌍🔧 #Impact #Sustainability #Construction #Recycling #Innovation #CircularEconomy #Plastics

🌟 The 7th Investment of Circular Plastics Fund!🌟 We are thrilled to have Polystyvert join our portfolio! An exciting opportunity that marks Infinity Recycling's first investment in dissolution technology and expands our landscape beyond Europe. Do you remember that styrenics can be found everywhere in our daily lives? From video game controllers to construction materials, it is more crucial than ever to reduce the wastage of such a widely-used product. Polystyvert's innovative process does just this, creating a new way to recycle polystyrene where plastic waste dissolves in an essential oil, leaving behind other materials like paper or metal. This is then cleaned and converted to one of the highest quality recycled styrenics available! Looking forward to working with the team! Here's to creating a circular economy for plastics. 🚀🌍 #ImpactInvesting #Innovation #WomenLed #GreenTech #Recycling #EcoFriendly #Diversity

🌍✨ Infinity Impact: Reflecting on a Day of Action ✨🌍 Last week, the Infinity Recycling team rolled up our sleeves and organized a city cleanup with CLEAR RIVERS in Rotterdam! Over 1.5 million tonnes of plastic waste is created each year in the Netherlands- collecting litter and waste throughout the city provided us with even more motivation to experience and further our vision of a circular economy for plastics. We didn't stop there: We repurposed plastic waste with The Good Floor, and what we collected will be transformed into beautiful art by Janet Otter (Studio Tiny Pieces)!    As investors in the recycling industry, it's crucial for us to not only advocate for sustainable practices but to actively engage in them. A huge thank you to our dedicated team and the wonderful organizations who joined us in this initiative. Together, we proved that with a bit of creativity and effort, we can contribute to a cleaner, greener world.  Here's to many more days of making a difference! ♻️💪   #Sustainability #Recycling #CommunityImpact #Investing #EnvironmentalResponsibility #Plastics #GreenInitiatives

🤔What do the images below have in common? 🤔 Answer: They all contain styrenic products! 💪 ______________________________________________________________________________ What are Styrenics? Styrenics, such as polystyrene and ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) are a versatile plastic you may think you don't know but are used everywhere we go! Lightweight, durable, and an excellent insulator, they are found in: -Insulation materials for buildings 🏠 -Arts and Crafts materials 🎨 -Sports Helmets ⚽ -Toys: LEGO bricks 🧸 -Electronics, like video game consoles 🎮 -Automotive Parts 🚗   Despite its utility, styrenic products often end up in landfills and oceans. Marine life such as fish and birds can mistake small pieces of styrofoam for food, leading to blockages, malnutrition and even death. These devastating consequences emphasize the importance of effective recycling and waste management solutions. Mechanical recycling poses its own challenges, as it grinds styrenics into small pellets which can degrade the quality of polystyrene over multiple cycles. Incineration consists of burning the products for energy, which releases harmful emissions in itself.  So what's the solution? This is where advanced recycling comes in! Employing a unique dissolution method which dissolves the styrenic waste into a solvent which removes contaminants, what we thought was initially unrecyclable is able to be purified and reprocessed into new products at a higher quality. This can handle contaminated and mixed styrene waste, saving intensive resources on sorting!  🏅🏅🏅   By investing and supporting specific and forward-thinking/advanced recycling methods like these, Infinity Recycling hopes to move towards a more sustainable future! 🌱💪     What are your thoughts on styrenic products? Feel free to share and get involved in the conversation! #RecyclingInnovation #Sustainability #Plastic #GreenTech #CircularEconomy #Engagement

📣 Circular Plastics Fund’s 6th investment 📣 Infinity Recycling is excited to announce its investment in BioBTX, the sixth investment from its Circular Plastics Fund. 🚀 BioBTX’s unique and proven solution enables the production of renewable aromatics (BTX) from residual plastic waste and biomass thereby spearheading the transition to a green and circular chemical industry. ♻ Aromatics are essential for the production of every-day products like insulation foams, coatings, PET bottles, batteries, and pharmaceuticals. The commercial plant our anchor investment will help build, enables the company to offer a virgin quality, sustainable alternative to fossil-based resources. 🌲 In a plastics market characterised by significant downward pricing pressures, as a result of an influx of cheap plastics from the USA and Asia, the quality of the recycled product is of paramount importance. BioBTX’s ICCP technology enables the production of high-quality outputs that can substitute virgin alternatives, thereby disrupting traditional market chains and driving the shift towards a circular economy. 🌎 This investment marks another pivotal step towards redefining industry standards. Together with our portfolio companies and co-investors, we are not just participating in the market but transforming it. 💪 We would like to thank our co-investors and financing partners for their support on this transaction: Invest-NL Covestro, NV NOM, Carduso Capital B.V and Polestar Capital. #sustainability #innovation #plasticsecycling #circulareconomy #BioBTX #highqualityrecycling #greenfuture #greenchemistry #impactinvestment #resourcetransition

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Infinity Recycling is thrilled to announce the final close of its Circular Plastics Fund I ("CPF"). Following the accession of Dutch insurance group ASR, Danish philantrophic association Realdania, ING Sustainable Investments, the sustainable investments arm of ING, Danish invetment and holding company KIRKBI A/S, and the impact investment initiatieve of Swiss company Après-demain SA, CPF has reached EUR 175 million in committed capital thereby significantly surpassing its EUR 150 million target. We willl shortly announce the investment in our 6th and 7th portfolio company respectively and are looking forward to working with our stakeholders to help catalyse the urgently needed transition to a circular economy, thereby delivering real environmental impact and generating the solid financial returns a transition arbitrage provides. #impactinvestment #circulareconomy #resourcetransition #sustainability #catalyst #transitionarbitrage #article9 Trustmoore Loyens & Loeff https://lnkd.in/dCuvus5r