The project

Plastic pollution is beginning to affect the ecosystem as a whole, and not least the marine ecosystem. Icelanders are heavily involved in the fishing industry and tourism with untouched nature in the foreground, and now this development threatens our performance and well-being. Pure North's activities are well in line with the government's action plan on climate issues as well as action plans on plastics. Plastic is to become plastic again and for every ton of recycled plastic, 1.8 tons of oil is saved. The Pure North Recycling biomass analysis compares Pure North Recycling's processing methods with recycling elsewhere in Europe and Asia. The results show that the lowest environmental impact is on the final processing of Pure North Recycling in Iceland. Environmental impacts are lowest in 13 of the 14 impact categories measured in terms of environmental impact. According to these results, carbon dioxide saving of Pure North Recycling has reached 1.52 tonnes of CO2 eq per tonne of plastic.