Yes.
Plastic is a material that behaves similarly to fibre packaging. A fibre gets shorter with every recycling cycle. So you start with one sheet of paper and turn it into a product with an increasingly short fibre, up to egg packaging, for example.
For plastic, the situation is the same, its fibres will get shorter with every cycle, once mechanical recycling has been initiated. There are limits, as we were saying earlier: mechanical recycling does not make it possible to eliminate ink and all the additives found in plastics.
In addition, certain forming processes—such as extrusion, though I do not want to get into technical details—mean that we are limited in terms of the material obtained at the end of this mechanical recycling process.
Molecular recycling makes it possible to go much further. Molecular recycling could be broken down into different things. We could go back all the way to the monomer, to the raw solution of the monomer plastic where polymer chains will be redone to remake them into plastics. Any inks or additives can be eliminated.
The interesting aspect of molecular recycling—we were talking about it as a complementary process—was that it can resolve the problem of any flexible packaging, any laminated and complex packaging containing amalgams of various types of resins.