SEATTLE (Recycling Monster): Cyclyx International, ExxonMobil and LyondellBasell have signed a joint agreement to establish a first-of-its-kind plastic waste sorting and processing facility in the Houston area. The new facility aims to assist community recycling programs in adopting advanced recycling technologies, thus expanding the range of plastic materials accepted and processed by them.

The facility, known as the Cyclyx Circularity Center, will be set up at an investment of approximately $100 million, and will be located in the Greater Houston area. The facility will have a production capability of nearly 150,000 metric tons of plastic feedstock per year, which will be mainly supplied to ExxonMobil and LyondellBasell recycling projects as well as other mechanical recycling markets. The commercial startup of the facility is expected in 2024.

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The facility will incorporate latest technologies, by which input plastics will be analysed based on their composition and sorted based on customer specifications.

The three partners of the project are members of the Houston Recycling Collaboration, which targets to boost plastic recycling rates and deploy new technologies and facilities to enable sorting and recycling of nearly all plastics.

Incidentally, Cyclyx aims to process around 650,000 metric tons of plastic waste per year by 2026.