2.2. Thermoplastic polyolefins for WPC
The total crude oil use by 2012 was about 4.1 billion t of which
5% (205 Mio t) were used globally by the plastic industries (Franke
et al., 2014). The yearly consumption of plastic converters in the
EU-27 plus Norway and Switzerland is about 46 Mio t. Of that,
10% (4.6 Mio t) are of recycled origin. About 60% are consumed
by the packaging industry (18 Mio t) and the building & construction
industries (10 Mio t) (Villanueva and Eder, 2014). In 2011,
Germany produced 10 Mio t of plastic granulates, of these 30%
were converted into packaging materials.