{"id":2750,"date":"2018-05-02T19:51:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/?page_id=2750"},"modified":"2018-09-27T16:23:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T20:23:56","slug":"pla-recycling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/solutions-and-services\/pla-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"PLA Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>PLA Recycling Challenges<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>PLA was among the first commercially produced bioplastics. Since then, PLA has gained extensive use in areas ranging from tissue engineering, food packaging, drug delivery, to agricultural applications, and its potential uses are growing.\u00a0 PLA is particularly susceptible to thermal degradation using traditional mechanical recycling methods. This constraint significantly limits recovery and reuse of PLA. \u00a0As an alternative to mechanical recycling, chemical recycling of PLA recovers the building blocks of the polymer. \u00a0Heretofore chemical recycling been limited by the requirement of higher temperatures and pressurized reaction vessels.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>New PLA Recycling Method Now Available<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Today, Zeus has created a novel recycling approach using chemical degradation of PLA. This new biopolymer recycling process allows low temperature degradation of PLA into its component monomers. This new recycling method is carried out at significantly lower temperatures than earlier methods and does not require pressurized vessels for chemical conversion. Our new method of chemical depolymerization of PLA results in high percent recovery and is more cost-efficient; it also requires significantly less investment on the part of those choosing chemical recycling over traditional recycling options.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Technical Paper Now Available<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Learn more about this new process when you download the technical paper, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/lp\/technical-papers\/low-temperature-solution-depolymerization-of-pla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Low Temperature Solution Depolymerization of PLA<\/u><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Contact Zeus<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We are offering this new technology to partners who are seeking to improve their economic standing while simultaneously reducing their environmental impact. When our customers thrive, we at Zeus also thrive!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/contact-us\/\"><u>Contact us<\/u><\/a> to speak to a technical account manager to see how we can help with your PLA recycling needs. You can reach us toll-free in the US at 1-800-526-3842; internationally, please call +1-803-268-9500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLA Recycling Challenges PLA was among the first commercially produced bioplastics. Since then, PLA has gained extensive use in areas ranging from tissue engineering, food packaging, drug delivery, to agricultural applications, and its potential uses are growing.\u00a0 PLA is particularly susceptible to thermal degradation using traditional mechanical recycling methods. This constraint significantly limits recovery and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"parent":428,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-specifications.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2750","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2750\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}