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Plastic bag reprocessing plant turns waste into useful products

September 24, 2013

Plastic bag reprocessing plant turns waste into useful products

PlasRecycle has built the UK’s first facility for reprocessing post-consumer polythene bags and packaging films to produce a plastic granulate that can be used for making new bags.

The Woolwich, South East London plant has the capacity to recycle 1 metric ton of plastic packaging and will save around 1.5 metric tons of carbon dioxide. The plant can process 20,000 metric tons per year of used plastic films sourced from waste companies and retailers. The clean plastic granulate that’s produced at the plant can be used in the manufacture of new black sacks and carrier bags, the company says.

PlasRecycle worked for three years developing the high-tech proprietary process to convert what has historically been regarded as waste into a useful product.

Read more at Environmental Leader.

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