11 July 2008 UK food grade PET/HDPE recycling plant launched
UK food grade PET/HDPE recycling plant launched The UK's first combined PET and HDPE food grade recycling plant was offically launched on 27 June in Dagenham, East London, by Closed Loop Recycling . The £13m ( €16.4m) facility will take in 35,000tpa of waste - or just under a billion bottles - and produce 11,000tpa of foodgrade PE flake plus 6,000tpa of food grade HDPE pellet. Once up and running, it will produce a further 1,000tpa each of non-food grade PE flake and HDPE. Closed Loop said that over 65% of output has already been sold. The aim of the project is to create a "closed loop" so that material is used and recycled in the UK. Closed Loop has negotiated a contract with waste management firm Veolia Environmental Services to provide the PET and HDPE bottles. The first companies signed up to buy the recycled food grade material from Dagenham include: Coca-Cola Enterprises, Marks & Spencer, Nampak Plastics Europe and Solo Cup (Europe). For more information on this article, please click this link For the full news article and to be taken to the website, click here | 
