Axion Looks at Plastics Recycling Improvements in 2012
13 January 2012 - UK plastic bottle recycling rates are currently around the 50% mark for drink and dairy bottles, but Keith Freegard, Consulting Director for Axion, is adamant about boosting this figure in 2012.
Manchester based Axion design and build processing plants for companies in the recycling sector and believe that better recycling rates are easily within reach.
Mr Freegard explained: “To get even higher bottle recycling rates, UK Plc has to find viable technologies to deal with mixed rigid plastics, films and the inevitable residuals. Kerbside collection data points to a huge untapped source of rigid, non-bottle packaging items becoming available as local authorities offer collections of more household plastics, as well as an often-ignored, high volume of post-consumer films.”
He added: “People are realising we need to tackle more difficult waste streams. One solution would be to build more integrated ‘resource parks’ where varied and mixed waste streams can be processed in complementary ways."
Axion has also predicted that 2012 will see an increase in the importance placed on the optimisation of MRF (material recovery facilities) with the use of “sophisticated modelling, sampling and analysis services”.