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

“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。废物的持续增加迫使政府、医疗机构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，医院每吨的成本最高可达1000英镑。由于每年要处理的塑料垃圾超过50万吨，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），通过这个项目的目标是开发一个定点热压实机“Sterimlet-2”，它将回收所有医院的塑料废物，将它们转化为20公斤的压块进行再利用。这台机器最初将处理蓝包装纸和一次性窗帘废料，但相信这项技术可以适用于许多其他一次性塑料。sterimmelt -2不仅可以将大量塑料废物从垃圾填埋场和/或焚烧中转移出来，还可以减少碳足迹和运输这种非常轻且占用空间的材料所产生的成本，从而支持NHS的可持续发展目标。”

"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."