Recovering value from contaminated plastic wastes

回收技术公司的工艺能够对塑料垃圾进行化学回收。我们决心减少被填埋或焚烧的塑料的数量。在英国3.2公吨(百万吨)的塑料垃圾中，超过四分之一是由于被有机材料或其他塑料污染而被填埋的。挑战是找到一种方法，从这些废流中回收塑料，并减少日益增加的塑料污染。该项目旨在迎接这一挑战！我们的技术RT7000能够将通过热裂解回收的塑料加工成超低硫碳氢化合物产品，品牌为Plaxx。Plaxx是一种合成的原油当量。它可以用作低硫燃料或化学原料(石脑油)来制造新塑料。材料回收设施(MRF)的城市废物、来自厌氧消化(AD)厂的受食物污染的塑料包装废物和水处理设施中回收的塑料垃圾(RPL)是塑料废物的最大来源。我们可以使用智能光学分类技术从材料回收设施的废物流中拾取和分离塑料。这样做可以将塑料从焚烧中转移出来，并减少其对二氧化碳的影响。基于酶的生物清洗系统可以用于AD和RPL废物，以分解有机污染。除了绿色和可持续的证书，酶降解相对便宜，它释放的可溶性和可发酵的糖可以再循环用于其他过程。技术(光学和酶)可以结合在一起，使RT有能力接受各种污染的废物进入其核心技术。一旦使用前处理模块处理污染，分离的塑料垃圾就可以使用RT7000进行处理。这种结合的方法将使英国减少垃圾填埋，提高回收利用率，并开发创新技术来处理受污染的塑料垃圾。此外，将每吨塑料垃圾从废物能源(EfW)工厂转移到Plaxx燃料中，可节省高达2.5吨二氧化碳。节省的7,000公吨塑胶废物，相当於每年超过3,500辆汽车的废气排放量！

Recycling Technologies' process is capable of chemically recycling plastic waste. We are determined to reduce the amount of plastic that is either landfilled or incinerated. More than a quarter of the UK's 3.2MT (Million Tonnes) of plastic waste is landfilled because of its contamination with organic material or other plastics. The challenge is to find a way and recover the plastic from this waste stream and reduce the ever-increasing plastic pollution. This project aims to take on this challenge!Our technology, RT7000 is capable of processing the recovered plastic via thermal cracking into an ultra low sulphur hydrocarbon product branded as Plaxx. Plaxx is a synthetic equivalent of crude oil. It can be used as a low sulphur fuel or chemical feedstock (naphtha) to make new plastics.Municipal waste at Material Recovery Facilities (MRF), food contaminated plastic packaging waste from Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plants and Recovered Plastic Litter (RPL) in water treatment facilities are some of the largest sources of plastic waste.We can use smart optical sorting techniques to pick up and separate the plastic from streams of waste from a MRF. In doing so, we can divert the plastic away from incineration and reduce its CO2 impact.Enzyme-based biological cleaning system can be used on AD and RPL waste to break down the organic contamination. In addition to its green and sustainable credentials, enzymatic degradation is relatively cheap and it releases soluble and fermentable sugars that can be re-cycled for other processes.The technologies (optical and enzyme) can be combined together to give RT the ability to accept a wide variety of contaminated waste into its core technology. Once the contamination is processed using a pre-treatment module, the separated plastic waste can be processed using the RT7000. This combined approach will allow UK to reduce landfilling, increase its recycling rates and develop innovative technologies to handle contaminated plastic waste.Furthermore, the diversion of each tonne of plastic waste away from Energy from Waste (EfW) plants and converted into Plaxx fuel creates up to 2.5 TCO2e savings. This saving for 7000 tonnes of plastic waste is equivalent to the emissions of more than 3,500 cars every year!!!!!