Polypropylene recovery from lead acid battery scrap: Innovative approach by GME

Agenda for
25-27 June
2025

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Maurizio Mori
Head of Marketing & Sales, GME Recycling, Italy
Polypropylene, a commonly used plastic in battery casings, has historically posed a significant challenge in the recycling process due to its complex composition. Recent advancements have revolutionized polypropylene recovery from discarded lead-acid batteries. GME has developed an innovative recycling plant that not only shreds, washes, and decontaminates polypropylene, achieving an impressive purity level of <200 ppm of lead, but also employs advanced sorting and separation techniques, such as wavelength-viewer based for color detection, to efficiently isolate and extract polypropylene components.

The output from the plant is available in two forms: PP Chips (approximately 10mm in size) and PP Granules (approximately 1mm in size). This innovative approach diverts significant amounts of plastic waste from landfills, enabling the reuse of polypropylene in various industries, thus reducing the demand for virgin plastics and conserving valuable resources. This paper presents a detailed study of the polypropylene recovery process and highlights GME's contributions to a sustainable and circular economy.

Bio

Maurizio Mori holds a Degree in Economics and Business Administration from Università Cattolica di Milano, and a Masters Degree in Marketing. He started his professional journey at Samsung Electronics as a Product Manager Support, then continued on to Candy Group (currently Haier group) connecting consumers’ needs with new technologies, enablers of a greater value, within the consumer technology industry.

Keen on the commercial dimension and passionate about digital and new ways to interact with consumers, in 2016 Maurizio joined Whirlpool Corporation Group, driving new product development from scratch up to sellout strategies and initiatives, on different product categories and across EMEA, pursing strong track of records on all relevant KPIs.

Today Maurizio is serving GME commercial operations with the aim of spreading a sustainable and green technological message around the Circular economy industry.