{"id":670189,"date":"2026-05-14T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670189\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:27:21","slug":"viridor-proposes-shutdown-of-quantafuel-chemical-recycling-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670189\/","title":{"rendered":"Viridor proposes shutdown of Quantafuel chemical recycling activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viridor has proposed shutting down its chemical recycling operations in Northern Europe. The British waste management company argues that weak demand, regulatory uncertainty and competition from low-cost virgin plastics have rendered advanced plastics recycling &#8220;commercially uninvestable without policy changes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The group said on 12 May that it intends to cease operations at its Quantafuel plastics-to-liquids (Ptl) pyrolysis facility in Skive, Denmark, as well as related activities in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, and Oslo, Norway, subject to local consultation and negotiation processes. Malm\u00f6 hosts laboratory and pilot-scale testing activities supporting the wider Quantafuel network, while Oslo houses central engineering, project management and other group functions&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viridor has proposed shutting down its chemical recycling operations in Northern Europe. The British waste management company argues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-670189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}