Leading UK plastic recycling firm, J&A Young (Leicester) Ltd., has opened a plastics sorting plant just outside Derby. The plant, located in South Normanton, has the capabilities to sort 78,000 tonnes of plastics bottles per year. The bottles, as well as some types of mixed plastics, will be collected from local authorities, small industrial businesses, and national supermarket franchises.
J&A Young, established in 1975, currently operated two other facilities in Loughborough. These sites include a production plant designed to reprocesses plastic film into other items such as refuse sacks.
The South Normanton site is set up to recycle a number of items, including PET, HDPE, polystyrene (PS), polypropylene (PP), and PVC. The systems also sorts HDPE and PET by colour before rebaling and reselling the items.
Rosie Barber, commercial manager of J&A Young, said: “The site is designed not just to sort mixed plastic bottles but to sort residual soft plastics as well - such as yoghurt pots and butter tubs.”
With many plastics, contaminants are a concern. At the South Normanton facility the baled plastics are subjected to “a rigorous sorting process”, designed to remove those contaminants using optical sorting technology by TiTech.
After the optical sorter has defined the item’s colour and polymer type, the plastic is transported to a second transport system via high power air jets, while the non-plastic components, referred to as the residual fraction is transferred to a third belt for continued sorting or disposal.
For more information, visit: jayplas.com and www.letsrecycle.com
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