Automated decontamination system for contaminated laboratory plastic recycling

由于缺乏专业知识和可扩展的技术，大量来自研究和医疗保健的一次性塑料被送往垃圾填埋场或焚烧。然而，由于社会和立法压力，对废物管理和回收的重视越来越受到鼓励。LabCycle提供了一个解决方案，对这些一次性实验室塑料进行分类、净化和回收/升级，并在研究部门采用循环经济方法方面创造了一个台阶式的变化。随着英国各地研究实验室对回收一次性实验室塑料的需求不断增加，LabCycle打算迅速扩大规模，以帮助研究实验室实现其可持续发展目标。该方法是将去污过程集成到一台可由受过培训的人员操作的自动化机器中。该项目旨在设计和建造自动净化系统的原型，然后进行测试和优化，以确保机器的平稳运行和效率。

Enormous amounts of single-use plastics from research and healthcare are sent to landfills or incineration due to a lack of know-how and scalable technologies. However, with social and legislative pressure, a focus on waste management and recycling has become increasingly more incentivised. LabCycle offers a solution to sort, decontaminate and recycle/ upcycle these single-use laboratory plastics, and to create a step-change in the adoption of circular economy approaches in the research sectors.With the increasing demands from research laboratories around the UK to recycle their single use laboratory plastics, LabCycle intends to scale up quickly to help research laboratories to reach their sustainable goals. The approach is integrating the decontamination process into one automated machine which can be operated by trained personnel. This project aims to design and build the prototype of the automated decontamination system, followed by testing and optimisation to ensure the smooth running and efficacy of the machine.