Bringing New Life to Fibrous Waste Streams

为纤维废物流带来新的活力

• 批准号: 89886
• 金额: $ 4.2万
• 依托单位: ANGLO RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=89886
• 关键词: Bringing; New; Life; Fibrous; Waste

Based in the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire, Anglo Recycling is a local business whose core business is based around extending the life of an increasing range of industrial plastic waste streams (including clothing and carpet offcuts) which would otherwise be sent to landfill. It employs around 35 people and has developed a range of specialist machinery that takes the original articles and converts them into a number of recycled products that meet the particular needs of a Customer. Through an active presence in various forums, such as Carpet Recycling UK, Anglo has established an extensive network of SMEs textile manufacturers who send them much of their plastic fibrous waste material to reduce any environmental harm it may otherwise have. For example, one carpet manufacturer can easily produce 200,000 carpet off-cuts (known as cones) each week and Buoyant Upholstery, who manufacture a wide of upholstered furniture, have a zero to landfill pledge. In essence, there are many waste stream sources available to Anglo such as Senator Furniture (office furniture), Herbert Parkinson (curtains and blinds) and Hollingsworth and Vose (filtration).One of the key challenges associated with working with, which by its very nature is, a wide variety of relatively low-cost synthetic fibres is the ability to economically transport and convert them into new profitable products. This includes making the equipment sufficiently versatile to produce a variety of products, with different specifications, in order to satisfy a range of end-users.Anglo plans to design and demonstrate a new flexible manufacturing process on a couple of case study synthetic fibre waste streams that offer huge potential in their own right such as pillows, curtains and upholstery. Hotels in the UK collectively use literally hundreds of thousands of pillows and, thus, converting of, what is normally produced from polyester to another product has considerable environmental benefits. There is also the opportunity to explore the possibility of closing-the-loop by selling the newly-purposed product, such as carpet underlay.

总部位于兰开夏郡罗森代尔山谷的盎格鲁回收公司是一家当地企业，其核心业务是延长越来越多的工业塑料废物（包括服装和地毯废料）的使用寿命，否则这些废物将被送往垃圾填埋场。它拥有大约35名员工，并开发了一系列专业机器，可以将原始物品转化为满足客户特定需求的一些回收产品。通过积极参与各种论坛，如地毯回收英国，英美资源集团已经建立了一个广泛的中小型纺织制造商网络，这些制造商将其大部分塑料纤维废料寄给他们，以减少可能对环境造成的危害。例如，一家地毯制造商每周可以轻松生产20万件地毯下脚料，而生产大量软垫家具的Buoyant Upholstery则承诺零垃圾填埋。从本质上讲，盎格鲁有许多废物流来源，如参议员家具（办公家具），赫伯特帕金森（窗帘和百叶窗）和霍林沃斯和沃斯（过滤）。就其性质而言，与各种相对低成本的合成纤维有关的主要挑战之一是能够经济地运输并将其转化为新的有利可图的产品。这包括使设备具有足够的通用性，以生产各种规格的产品，以满足一系列最终用户。盎格鲁计划设计并展示一种新的灵活制造工艺，并对几个合成纤维废料流进行案例研究，这些废料流本身就具有巨大的潜力，如枕头、窗帘和室内装潢。英国的酒店总共使用了数十万个枕头，因此，将通常由聚酯纤维生产的枕头转化为另一种产品具有相当大的环境效益。也有机会通过销售新用途的产品（如地毯衬垫）来探索闭环的可能性。