COMPACT - Development of an innovative, small footprint glass bottle compaction system

我们已经开发出了在酒吧、酒吧、餐馆和体育场等场所粉碎或压实玻璃瓶的早期概念。我们已经进行了早期原型的现场试验，客户的反馈是压倒性的积极。COMPACT项目将把这些最初的概念转化为一种创新的、占用空间小的系统，用于压实玻璃瓶。该系统将是模块化的，使其能够以多种不同的方式进行配置，以适应不同的情况，如何将瓶子送入机器和从系统中移除HowGlass碎玻璃。玻璃压实装置将在闭环系统中使用，以实现整个价值链中多个点的收入，包括单位的销售/租赁、废玻璃的收集、再加工、包装回收票据(PRNS)、再生玻璃的销售和高附加值产品的制造。该项目的主要目标是：i)技术--开发一种安全的、模块化的玻璃压实系统，能够实现A10：1压实；使用20瓶/分钟(或150公斤/小时)；颜色感应来分离透明和彩色玻璃废液。ii)环保-减少废瓶的体积，减少收集废玻璃的运输运动次数，提高废物收集的利用率(每辆车的吨位更高)，因为压实玻璃而不是大容量的瓶子，分离的透明和彩色玻璃增加了重熔和回收，而不是低价值的玻璃集合体。透明玻璃的售价高达70 GB/吨，绿色/棕色的售价约为30 GB/吨。聚合碎玻璃的价值约为GB 10/吨。商业--很小的占地面积将打开潜在的市场；制造成本为

We have developed early stage concepts for the crushing or compaction of glass bottles invenues including pubs, bars, restaurants and stadia. We have carried out field trials with earlyprototypes and the customer feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. The COMPACTproject will transform these initial concepts into an innovative, small footprint system forcompacting glass bottles. The system will be modular enabling it to be configured in a numberof different ways to suit different situations in how bottles are fed into the machine and howglass cullet is removed from the system.The glass compaction unit will be used within a closed loop system to realise revenues atmultiple points throughout the value chain including the sale/rent of units, collection of wasteglass, reprocessing, Packaging Recovery Notes (PRNs), sale of recycled glass & themanufacture of high value added products.The main objectives for the project are:i) TECHNICAL – to develop a safe, modular glass compaction system capable of achieving a10:1 compaction; with a footprint of 20bottles/minute (or 150kg/hr); colour sensing to separate clear & coloured glasswastestreams.ii) ENVIRONMENTAL - to reduce the volume of waste bottles, to reduce the number oftransport movements to collect waste glass, to improve utilisation waste collection (bettertonnage per vehicle) because of compacted glass rather than high volume bottles, separatedclear & coloured glass increases remelt & recycling rather than low value glass aggregate.Clear glass sells for up to £70/tonne and green/brown for circa £30/tonne. Aggregate cullet isvalued at circa £10/tonne.iii) COMMERCIAL – a small footprint will open up the potential market; a manufacturingcost of