Vac-Flex Recycling Pack

Vac-Flex 回收包

• 批准号: 10075879
• 金额: $ 3.28万
• 依托单位: SHEEPHILL ORCHARD LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10075879
• 关键词: Vac; Flex; Recycling; Pack

The Vac-Flex project aim is to assess the feasibility of a reusable vacuum pack collection method for flexible plastic packaging waste from UK households.Flexible plastic packaging will be separated and collected by households into a dedicated container that stores and can also temporarily compress the waste to reduce the volume it takes for storage and transportation prior to individual deposits at supermarkets or similar recycling facilities, or in preparation for kerbside collection.The space saving advantage from the vacuum pack method will make it easier, more convenient and appealing for households to separate and collect the flexible plastic packaging waste for recycling and more efficient, space and cost wise, for recyclers to collect and transport the materials for further sorting and treatment at suitable material processing facilities.To facilitate this collection and recycling process, the lock & release vacuum container will be transportable and replaceable where full containers are replenished by empty containers at the point of collection and once full containers have been transported to a processing facility where they are emptied, they could be cleaned, tested, and returned to a collection point or waste collector to be passed back onto households for re-filling.The advantages and incentives for households to separate and collect the flexible plastic packaging waste are that doing so with the vacuum pack container will reduce the space the waste takes up in their home but also within their other waste streams and collection methods such as kitchen bins, plastic bags, bulky containers or wheelie bins.Having a dedicated collection method for these currently difficult to collect and recycle forms of flexible plastic packaging waste will also encourage households to engage with the recycling process and enable the circulation and reuse of valuable materials that would otherwise be wasted and require replacing with virgin materials by the packaging industry and therefore would also add to commercial incentives to support the recycling scheme.Although this project will only test the feasibility of the concept on a small scale with user trials and industry feedback to review and refine a possible solution, the potential material, cost and environmental savings both directly from the circulation of existing materials and indirectly from the saving to extract and process raw materials, would be more significant at the scale that this project could unlock, though further trails at a local level and much more significant at a national level.

Vac-Flex项目旨在评估英国家庭软性塑料包装废物可重复使用真空包装收集方法的可行性。家庭将柔性塑料包装分离并收集到专用容器中，用于存储，也可以暂时压缩废物，以减少在超市或类似回收设施个人存放之前或准备路边收集之前的储存和运输体积。真空包装方法节省空间的优势将使家庭更容易、更方便和更有吸引力地分离和收集软性塑料包装废物回收，并更高效、空间和成本效益更高。让回收商收集和运输材料，以便在合适的材料加工设施进行进一步的分类和处理。为了促进这一收集和回收过程，锁紧和释放真空容器将是可运输和可更换的，在收集点用空容器补充装满的集装箱，一旦装满的集装箱被运送到处理设施，在那里清空它们，它们可以被清洁、测试、家庭将软性塑料包装废物分类收集的好处和诱因是，使用真空包装容器这样做将减少废物在他们家里占用的空间，也减少了他们其他废物流和收集方法，如厨房垃圾桶、塑料袋、大型容器或轮式垃圾箱。对于这些目前难以收集和回收的软性塑料包装废物，拥有一种专门的收集方法也将鼓励家庭参与回收过程，并使有价值的材料得以循环和重复使用，否则包装行业将浪费这些有价值的材料，因此也将增加支持回收计划的商业激励。尽管该项目只会通过用户试验和行业反馈来测试这一概念的可行性，以审查和改进可能的解决方案，但潜在的材料、成本和环境节约，既来自现有材料的流通，也间接来自节省提取和加工原材料，在这个项目可能开启的规模上，这将是更重要的，尽管在地方一级还有更多的痕迹，在国家一级更重要。