Environment Recycling Technologies (ERT) holds the rights to a neat process that turns mixed waste plastics into commercially viable products. ERT calls this Powder Impression Moulding – or PIM for short.

The interesting thing about this method is that it enables the recycling of unsorted and mixed plastic waste, meaning less leg work and lower costs.

2K Manufacturing, which makes industrial products using the PIM process, has begun large scale production of EcoSheet, an environmentally friendly alternative to plywood that is fully recyclable at the end of its lifespan

In addition to plywood, PIM has the potential to become roof tiles and pallets and, further out, it could even be applied to making body armour for the defence sector.

(Source: PIM turns plastic into plywood [Independent])