Baylis boosts local authority plastics recycling programme with two tonnes per hour sorting system.

New system sorts mixed incoming cans and plastics - enhances Baylis' one-stop programme Including plastics in the mix increases recycling rates by up to 75%, industry research reveals Chris Baylis: "The industry has a duty to make it as easy as possible for councils to hit their targets by raising their recycling rates. Our latest investment helps them to do that".

"Many local authorities are failing to hit their targets, when industry research shows that including plastics in the mix increases recycling rates by as much as 75%" says Baylis Recycling managing director Chris Baylis. "UK councils spend over £100 million a year landfilling plastic bottles they could sell to reprocessors for £50 million - even though the UK market for plastic bottles is growing by an estimated 6% per annum". (source: WRAP)

Baylis Recycling - an Environment Agency-accredited reprocessor - is responding to this situation by installing a two-tonnes-per-hour sorting system that enables local councils to supply post-consumer waste as mixed cans and bottles. Baylis' new sorting system for incoming waste will enhance the company's one-stop, shorter supply chain plastics recycling deal for local authorities, under which Baylis already shreds, flakes and washes the HDPE waste (for example milk bottles and shampoo containers) at its own Langley, Berkshire plant. The company has collection depots nationwide.

"Council declarations show that the collection rate for plastic bottles will have increased to 30,000 tonnes per annum by 2006, and that the current rate is 25,000 tonnes. But this still only accounts for around five per cent of the bottles in domestic household waste", Baylis comments. "The industry has a duty to make it as easy as possible for councils to hit their targets by raising their recycling rates. Our latest investment helps them to do that".

This latest enhancement to its service follows Baylis' installation earlier this year of a plastics recycling facility valued at £3 million, and featuring washing and flaking plant and compound lines with a reprocessing capacity of up to 15,000 tonnes per annum.

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