TECHNOLOGY
IMEKO’s Tech
IMEKO identified in cigarette butts a highly polluting waste with great potential: the filter made of cellulose acetate. This led them to ask:
What if we could recover this material in its entirety? What if we recycled cigarette butts?
We recover acetate
We eliminate toxicity
36% lower carbon footprint
Scalable and exportable technology
PROCESS
Through a fully sustainable, purpose-designed chemical process, we remove all toxic substances contained in cigarette butts and recover the valuable cellulose acetate that makes up the filter.
I
Solid waste removal
II
Cigarette-butt acetate purification
III
Pellet and sheet transformation
Completely mechanical separation of solid waste (paper, ashes, tobacco) with unique developed machinery and processes
Extraction and elimination of toxic substances contained in cellulose acetate fiber through sustainable chemical technology
Physico-chemical transformation of purified cellulose acetate fiber into bioacetate pellets
Attributes
- Scalable technology based on mechanical and chemical principles
- Only solution in the world that obtains pure acetate from cigarette butts
- Celion is formulated without toxic additives
- Sustainable process from its design: low water and energy consumption, and recirculation of all inputs
- >90% of the process waste is recovered
- Intellectually protected
Contact us:
celion@imeko.cl
