The GeMMe has a long-standing collaboration with Comet Traitements, notably focused on the industrialization of post-shredder processes for the recovery of non-ferrous metals, minerals, iron oxides, plastics and precious metals. LIFE PlasPLUS provides ULiège and the GeMMe with the opportunity to work on two core activities : smart sorting and hydrometallurgy. Initially developed within the Reverse Metallurgy Walloon regional program, specific R&D for those two technologies was upscaled to the piloting stage with the PICK-IT and BIOLIX projects respectively.

In LIFE PlasPLUS ULiège will lead activities for automated multi-class sensor-based sorting and separation of Flame Retardant Plastics by demonstrating at TRL 7 a multiclass sensor-based robotic and pneumatic sorting prototype for the extraction of brominated and antimonated plastics. Moreover, ULiège will contribute to the recycling of by-product antimony through catalytic conversion and hydrometallurgy by producing industrial grade antimony trioxide (Sb₂O₃) through a hydrometallurgical route.