THE POPULAR FORBES WROTE ABOUT US

You know the alarming news - they have become a part of our daily lives. Of the many, let us recall only the shards. In ten years, the world has doubled the production of plastics to four hundred million tons per year. Half of used packaging, plastic bottles and other plastics end up in landfills.

A fifth floats in the seas and oceans or is blown over land by the wind. A fifth is burned in the furnaces of incinerators or cement plants and pollutes the air, less than ten percent is recycled. Scientists have found microplastics in the depths of sea trenches and at the ends of high mountains, they are part of our organisms. Activists refer to contemporaries as the "plastic waste generation" and international organizations warn with reports with titles such as "Drowning in Plastic".

Estimates say that by 2060, the annual production of plastics will increase fourfold. Companies from Slovakia are also currently participating in the race to acquire top business and export items. The research and development company Eurex Energy is starting a joint business with the plastic group Chemosvit, which is one of the largest employers in the east of Slovakia, and the German technology giant Siemens.

The result of the business alliance is a unique recycling line of Slovak design, which is supposed to supply Europe and the world with technology for the material recovery of mixed plastic waste. The demand for technologies that could process and recycle plastics for reuse is therefore huge, not only in the European Union, which is trying to be at the forefront of the global movement to save the climate. Despite this, no company or technology that would bring a revolutionary solution has yet established itself in the world - although giants such as Shell, ExxonMobil, OMV and BASF are also investing intensively in new ideas.