Mura Technology

We are delighted to announce that Mura Technology has become the first advanced recycling company featured in the ecoinvent life cycle inventory database – a leading repository of reliable, verifiable data for analysing the environmental impact of products and services.   Following a rigorous peer review process, ecoinvent’s newly released version 3.11 database will include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data from our Hydro-PRT® advanced plastic recycling facility at Wilton, Teesside, UK. Inclusion of Mura’s data will allow stakeholders from the wider plastics value chain to explore confidently what advanced recycling can do to support circularity and reduction of carbon intensity.   The LCA, independently published by WMG at the University of Warwick, shows an 80% reduction in climate impacts from Hydro-PRT compared to incineration. The study also found that producing naphtha, a fossil oil-based feedstock used in the production of plastics, via Hydro-PRT had a lower Global Warming Potential (GWP) than the fossil fuel equivalent. Read the interview with Mura's Head of Sustainability and R&D Dr Geoff Brighty here: https://bit.ly/3V0KOVw #circulareconomy #plasticrecycling #flexibleplastic #ecoinvent #sustainability #LifeCycleAssessment

Yesterday, as announced in the Autumn budget and following a consultation that closed 12 months ago, the UK Government took a global lead in delivering a #circulareconomy, with HM Treasury confirming that a mass balance approach for calculating the recycled content of plastics from advanced (also known as chemical) recycling sources will be implemented. Importantly, a fuel-use exempt approach has been recommended as the basis for the accounting, meeting the relevant definitions of recycling and recovery under UK and EU waste legislation. This is an important principle for the acceptance of advanced recycling to generate recycled content in future #packaging and addresses a key uncertainty in the development of the plastic circular economy in the UK.   Whilst this is a budgetary announcement, the cross-Department response by Ministers from Treasury, Defra, DBT and DESNZ also highlights UK Government wider support with the specific mention of complementarity of #advanced and #mechanical technologies. Mura looks forward to supporting Government’s next steps to bring this to full implementation, as part of the new Government’s 10-year #infrastructure #strategy. Having had support from Innovate UK's flagship Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging programme and #FuturesFund, Mura is now in final commissioning of the first UK commercial scale advanced recycling plant. With this policy announcement, the UK is now set to take the global lead to scale advanced recycling, halting the unnecessary losses of waste plastic to energy from waste, landfill and the environment and driving a low carbon, circular plastic economy.

Dr Geoff Brighty discussing Hydro-PRT at the London #RecyclingExpo Mura’s hydrothermal advanced plastic recycling solution completes the circular economy, processing those plastics which otherwise could not be recycled, and would be sent to #EfW (incineration) or landfill, including flexible, contaminated and multi-layered films. Mura’s first site is under commissioning in Wilton, Teesside, North East England and will put 20ktpa of circular hydrocarbons back into circulation the #circulareconomy annually.

Mura Technology were delighted to welcome Professor Kevin Van Geem, Head of the Laboratory for Chemical Technology (LCT) at Ghent University, the world-leading academic institution dedicated to minimising the environmental impact of chemical processes, with which Mura recently signed a 5 year research partnership.   Mura’s Chief Technology Officer Richard Daley and Head of Sustainability and R&D Dr Geoff Brighty gave Prof. Van Geem a tour of our Wilton facility, Mura’s first Hydro-PRT® advanced plastic recycling site, which is in commissioning now and set to enter commercial operations soon.   The research partnership between Mura and LCT will involve the construction of a continuous flow, pilot scale testing facility, which will be used for a range of research programmes to evaluate hard to recycle polymers, including complex composite materials. The results will drive future technology expansions and help both Mura’s waste and chemical industry partners build the circular economy, taking waste polymers into circular, low carbon, chemical feedstocks. 

The Mura Team are very much looking forward to the #RecyclingExpo2024 at Excel London this month. Mura's Dr Geoff Brighty, Head of Sustainability and R&D will speak on both days: DAY 1 PANEL / Tuesday 15th October 2pm / Recycling & Waste Management Stage: Highlighting the role of advanced recycling for plastics. DAY 2 PRESENTATION / Wednesday 16th October 12pm / Recycling & Waste Management Stage: Hydro-PRT® – The Next Generation of Advanced Plastic Recycling Come and meet us on stand BB44, right next to the Circular Economy Theatre! Register for free tickets here: https://bit.ly/4gFCDHL

We are delighted to announce that Mura will be exhibiting at The RECOUP Conference. Taking place on Thursday 26th September at the Kingsgate Conference Centre, Peterborough, it promises to provide an excellent platform to gain invaluable insights and the latest updates from across the plastics value chain. The RECOUP Conference is unique in its ability to draw together stakeholders, NGOs, local and national Government bodies, and companies to network and share best practice. For more information or to register to attend, please visit here: https://lnkd.in/entSzPeM #RECOUPconf24 #PlasticsRecycling #ResourceEfficiency #PlasticSolutions #Sustainibility

We are delighted to announce that Mura Technology has been selected as a 2024 WIREDTrailblazer by Wired Consulting and HSBC. The prestigious WIRED Trailblazer programme recognises the UK’s most innovative, growing businesses at the forefront of today's social, economic, and environmental challenges.   WIRED highlighted the impact of Mura Technology’s Hydro-PRT® process on plastic circularity and GHG emissions mitigation as warranting special merit. Find out more about the Hydro-PRT® process here: https://shorturl.at/dRxxA

Following on from yesterday's announcement about the continuation of our collaboration with WMG, University of Warwick and Innovate UK, there is now a exciting opportunity to start your career in sustainability and the circular, low carbon economy through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Associate position. Working with advanced recycler Mura Technology and WMG, University of Warwick, you'll develop a ground-breaking environmental impact modelling platform underpinning the global roll-out of Mura's Hydro-PRT advanced recycling technology. This is an ideal role for an early career professional, with chemistry and/or programming backgrounds, seeking a role with purpose, and delivering global impact. Applications should go directly via the WMG portal - this role is not listed on Mura's Careers page. https://lnkd.in/efruPnqV

We are very pleased to announce today that Mura Technology will continue the collaboration with WMG, University of Warwick at the University of Warwick and Innovate UK (IUK) to continue working on sustainability with a new IUK funded, two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP). WMG will develop operational sustainability models for Mura’s Hydro-PRT advanced plastic recycling technology to identify opportunities for further improvements to the already sector-leading environmental performance of the process. Mura has already identified an annual carbon emissions saving of 40,000 tonnes at the first Hydro-PRT site in Wilton, Teesside, due to commence operations later this year. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eXTQnVBx

We're very pleased to have Elite Recycling Solutions Ltd as a feedstock supplier to Mura's first site in Wilton, Teesside, Northeast England - invaluable support from the waste industry and an opportunity for Elite to provide a sustainable advanced recycling solution to their customers.