Non-mechanical recycling companies in the BPF Recycling Group
Below are statements made by each company on their future plans including the capacity they are planning to build.
Recycling Technologies
ReNew ELP
Recycling Technologies has developed and patented a pyrolysis-based recycling machine, RT7000, to recycle a range of household and commercial plastic wastes. The company has a pilot plant in Swindon and a current project to install a full-scale commercial RT7000 in Scotland at the Binn Ecopark, due on stream in 2021, with other RT7000s in the pipeline thereafter. The Recycling Technologies business model is to centrally build the modular units, each with a throughput of 7,000 tonnes per annum, so that they can be shipped and installed at existing waste management sites to recycle suitable local plastic waste streams into Plaxx®. Plaxx comprises a wax fraction and liquid oil fractions, the latter for onward sale to petrochemical processors for use as a feedstock in new plastics production. The company has plans to supply around 50 such units across the UK by 2030, diverting each year 350,000 tonnes of plastic waste from landfill or incineration.
ReNew ELP, based in Wilton, North East England, are due to begin construction of the world’s first commercialscale Cat-HTR™ plastic recycling site in early 2021. The hydrothermal upgrading technology, which uses supercritical water to convert plastic waste into shortchain, stable hydrocarbons, produces a range of valuable chemicals and oils including naphtha. These products can be used as a direct replacements for fossil sourced feedstocks in the manufacture of new polymers and other products for the petrochemical industry. The first phase of build is for a 20,000tpa line, which will be complete in 2022, with focus on recycling post-consumer, mixed rigid and flexible packaging waste. Phase 2 will see the construction of a further 60,000 t/yr capacity, due to come online in 2024. renewelp.co.uk
recyclingtechnologies.co.uk
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