Development and commercialisation of a solution for recycling and valorising contaminated hospital plastic waste

回收和利用受污染的医院塑料废物的解决方案的开发和商业化

• 批准号: 104742
• 金额: $ 37.94万
• 依托单位: THERMAL COMPACTION GROUP LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=104742
• 关键词: Development; commercialisation; solution; recycling; valorising

"As the generation of single use plastic wastes increases within the healthcare sector, its handling and treatment is steadily becoming a serious economic and environmental issue. This continual increase in waste is forcing the government, healthcare providers and the related facilities management companies to actively explore ways to effectively utilize the generated hospital plastic waste. Currently, this waste is either incinerated or landfilled- costing up to £1000/ton to the hospitals, depending upon the level of contamination. With more than 500,000tons of plastic waste to deal with each year, NHS is actively looking to reduce the volume of plastic used and find a circular solution to prevent the landfill and/or incineration of this plastic and hence enable cost savings.We, Thermal Compaction Group (TCG), through this project aim to develop a point-of-origin thermal compaction machine 'Sterimlet-2' which will recycle all hospital plastic waste by converting them into 20kg briquettes for reuse. The Machine will initially be processing blue-wrap and disposable curtains waste but it is believed that the technology can be adapted for many other disposable plastics.Sterimelt-2 will not only divert large amounts of plastic waste away from landfill and/or incineration, but it will also reduce the carbon footprint and costs created by transporting this very lightweight and space hungry material, supporting the NHS sustainability goals."

“随着医疗保健行业一次性塑料废物的产生增加，其处理和处理正逐渐成为一个严重的经济和环境问题。这种废物的持续增加迫使政府、医疗服务提供者和相关设施管理公司积极探索有效利用产生的医院塑料废物的方法。目前，这些废物要么被焚烧，要么被填埋-根据污染程度，医院每吨的费用高达1000英镑。每年有超过50万吨的塑料垃圾需要处理，NHS正在积极寻求减少塑料使用量，并找到一种循环解决方案，以防止这些塑料的填埋和/或焚烧，从而节省成本。我们，热压实集团（TCG），通过这个项目的目的是开发一个点的起源热压机'Sterimlet-该公司将回收所有医院的塑料废物，将其转化为20公斤的煤球，以供重复使用。该机器最初将处理蓝色包装和一次性窗帘废物，但相信该技术可以适用于许多其他一次性塑料。Sterimelt-2不仅将大量塑料废物从垃圾填埋场和/或焚烧中转移出来，而且还将减少碳足迹和运输这种非常轻和空间占用的材料所产生的成本，支持NHS可持续发展目标。"