Intercontinental Recycling Ltd has said that the demand for modern plastics sorting facilities in the United Kingdom will rise as manufacturers are forced to turn to using more recycled materials. This was said during the official opening ceremony of a new IRL plastics recycling plant in Skelmersdale, Lancashire.
The Skelmersdale plant went through a number of trials before its opening and was built in response to worries about the amount of plastic being sent to landfill sites or exported. The plant will handle waste materials from bring schemes, kerbside collections as well as municipal and commercial collections throughout the United Kingdom.
Ravi Chanrai, IRL managing director, stated that the plastics recycling market looks set to grow as manufacturers are being forced to apply more recycled materials.
Mr. Chanrai observed that besides the fact that most people in the United Kingdom wanted to recycle, they also wanted assurance that the materials they accumulate for recycling were being utilised in the manufacture of useful products rather than being sent overseas.
The Intercontinental Recycling Ltd’s Skelmersdale plant utilises technology from German company Stadler, including a ballistics separator which offers three waste sources ready for sorting.
Sylvia Wilson, a spokesperson for Wilson Recycling Machinery which delivered the plant’s Stadler machinery, added that the inclination to recycle plastics in the United Kingdom would rise due to the increase in kerbside council and commingled collections.
The spokesperson for Wilson Recycling Machinery revealed that they would be setting up three more big plastics processing machines, two in England and another one in Ireland in the course of the next six months.
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