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Turning waste films into something useful
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losed-loop recycling of post-consumer and retail waste plastic films could become a full-scale commercial reality in the UK within four years, according to British company Axion Consulting, following the outcome of successful feasibility trials.Refuse sacks, external hoardings, shelving and in-store displays are among various new products that could be made from waste supermarket plastics and either sold or used within their store networks, says the Manchester-based resource recovery specialist.
Axion worked with three leading manufacturers - CeDo, Centriforce Products and Protomax Plastics - on a series of demonstration trials of post-consumer films sourced from a leading retailer's front and back of store collections.
Axion's research, funded by WRAP, shows it is technically possible to manufacture commercially useful products for the retail sector from mixed post-consumer film packaging.