Company Overview The Process Food Grade Mixed Plastics Mixed Plastics Collection: operator of...
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Company Overview The Process Food Grade Mixed Plastics • Collection : operator of recycling collection services for 40 local authorities (servicing 2m households) and 65,000 commercial customers • Recycling : >700K TPA of commingled recycling capacity with major presence in London, Midlands and North West • Reprocessor : 50K TPA upgrading capabilities in plastics • Post Industrial Film Recycling & Compounding • Food grade HDPE • Mixed plastics Introduction: Chris Taylor Biffa Polymers Redcar Biffa has a unique position as major collector, recycler and re-processor of recyclables….
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Company Overview
Company Overview The ProcessThe Process Food GradeFood Grade Mixed
Plastics
Mixed Plastics
• Collection: operator of recycling collection services for 40 local authorities (servicing 2m households) and 65,000 commercial customers
• Recycling: >700K TPA of commingled recycling capacity with major presence in London, Midlands and North West
• Reprocessor: 50K TPA upgrading capabilities in plastics
• Post Industrial Film Recycling & Compounding
• Food grade HDPE
• Mixed plastics
Introduction: Chris Taylor Biffa Polymers Redcar
Biffa has a unique position as major collector, recycler and re-processor of recyclables….
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Welcome to Biffa Polymers
Number of employees 134 – all based here at Wilton, Redcar
Plastics recycling operations
Post Industrial Plastics Recycling & Compounding (two lines:12k tonnes per annum)
r.HDPE Food grade business (10k tonnes per annum)
New mixed plastics recycling facility (20k tonnes per annum)
Other services
Trading – Chemicals and plastics
WESpack – packaging compliance scheme
HEALTH AND SAFETY IS AT THE CORE OF EVERYTHING WE DO
The business – 2011
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Post Industrial Plastics Recycling & Compounding
2 extrusion lines processing 12K tonnes per annum of different polymer sources into compounds
PP
PS
LDPE
HDPE
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Post Industrial Plastics Recycling & Compounding: The process
Input MaterialInspection
Hand Sort and Preparation
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Producing c. 10 Kt of food approved rHDPE
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Food grade rHDPE
• Our Food Grade rHDPE plant takes milk bottles from the recycling bin back to new milk bottles.
• 95% of product reused in UK for food consumer applications
• Plant accepts source segregated and MRF sorted bottles
Taking post-consumer packaging back into food contact use in the UK
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Bottle to rHDPE: The process
Outside & Main Process HallSort, Shred, Select and Wash - 12 Steps
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Food Grade HallOptically sort, Internally clean and Pelletise - 3 Steps
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LaboratoryInternal storage, 7 different lab instruction - 2 Steps
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Mixed Plastics Plant
Poorly developed infrastructure for recycling non-bottle packaging in the UK
June 2009: WRAP launched Mixed Plastics Capital Competition
Biffa Polymers (then Greenstar WES) awarded £1.2m grant
Contract with WRAP signed January 2010
Construction completed February 2011
20,000 tonnes per annum input
The UK’s first integrated facility for processing mixed plastics post-consumer packaging
Manufactures 8 individually sorted
high purity regrinds including:
PP
PE
PET
HIPS
Mixed Plastics
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Keys advantages of the process
Flexibility of inputs
Can deal with a wide range of contamination and polymers
Can take mixed plastic from any MRF and extract value
Flexibility of outputs
Consistent high purity products suitable for use to make new consumer products
We make commodity products from the waste stream - a regrind which has international markets
Ability to tune products to customer requirements
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Contact Details
Biffa Polymers Limited,
WES Building,
Plastics Road,
Wilton International,
Redcar,
TS10 4RG
Tel – 01642 442080
Email – [email protected]
Website – www.biffa.co.uk
Further Information
Location - Based on the world famous Wilton International site – Redcar Cleveland
