The Chemical Industry’s Future Visionon the Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste
Introduction✓ It is the urgent challenge to achieve the efficient and circular use of plastic waste in response to world issues, such as resource
limitations due to global increased population, plastic litter and climate change.
✓ All kinds of plastic waste are important domestic resources, the effective use of which helps mitigate global warming through carbon
circulation, etc., and chemical recycling (CR) is a key to achieving this.
✓ The chemical industry plays a central role to foster innovation to solve global issues based on the possibilities provided by chemistry.

Future Vision: Become a coordinator for the entire CR value chain to realize a “True Circular Society”[Premises] State of society in 2050
✓ Shift from linear economy to circular economy✓ Continued use of chemical products as basic
materials in post-coronavirus society✓ Progress with breakaway from the use of fossil
resources as carbon source(1) State of CR technologies(2) State of society after the introduction of CR✓ Achievement of “cradle to cradle”✓ Circular CR into oil, gases andmonomers of equal quality✓ Expanded recycling of plastic waste
CR 2.5 mil. tons/year (1.5 mil. tons/year in 2030)✓ Acceptance of recycled materials by the public

Toward the achievement of the vision(Full-scale expansion of CR in society)(1) Establishment of a feasible business size(2) Establishment of CR technologies✓ Plastic waste collection and treatment system
Establishment of a large-scale collection andtreatment system
Rational and highly efficient collection system
Building of a collection & management dataplatform✓ Matching of different types of plastic
waste to CR technologies✓ Enhancement of plastic waste sorting& treatment technologies✓ Building of a support system
Public finance & industry-governmentacademia collaboration, etc.

(3) Establishment of economic
feasibility and market✓ Nurturing of values among consumers
and brand manufacturers✓ Comparison of LCA results between
various recycling methods✓ Clarification of recycled products
through certification systems✓ Building of a sustainable business model(4) Expansion to overseas
・Deployment as business in emerging market countries
・Utilization of bilateral talks and international organizations

Build collaboration and social systems to foster social innovations across the value chain

Propose an international certification system, etc. to globally foster CR with economic rationality

The Chemical Industry’s Future Visionon the Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste
Direct CO2
emissions＞2018 Actual*
1WAY-type C R
0.16mil.T/Y

E Ｒ 5.0mil.T/Y

Recycling ofchemicals intomaterials

Direct CO2
emissions

Circular CR

Vision for 2050

0.23mil.T/Y

simple incineration & landfilling 1.4mil.T/Y*Source: Results in 2018
(annual treatment amount)by Plastic Waste
Management Institute

Plastic waste
recycling flow1WAY-type

Circular CR 2.5mil.T/YCR

Oiling, Gasification,
MonomerizationＭＲ
2.1mil.T/Y＜

Recycling ofchemicals intomaterials

EＲ(Substantialreduction)

Ｍ Ｒ3.5mil.T/Y～＃

Carbon circulation system(Recycling of chemicals
into materials)
Carbon circulation system(Recycling of plastic intomaterials)

Energy(Heat / Electricity)# Reference value
set in considerationof the government’s
plastic resource
recycling strategy

Minimization of simple incineration & landfilling

Important points for the realization of the vision for 2050
(1) Ensure a feasible size: Build a rational & large and highly efficient collection system and plastic waste collection
data platform, and product design (for recycling into mono-materials)(2) Market creation: Promote value of recycled products (by Eco Mark, international certification system, LCA) andbuild a business model.

CO2 notation isderived fromwaste plastic