Recycling
| Alcoa Aluminio Carton Packaging Recycling Plant | ||
The carton recycling plant is in Piracicaba, near Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
Plastic is transformed into paraffin and the aluminium is recovered in its pure form using plasma technology. |
The components of cartons separated by plasma technology return to the production chain as raw material. |
The process excludes oxygen, it does not involve combustion, and the energy efficiency rate is close to 90%. |
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| Closed Loop PET Recycling Plant, Thames Gateway | ||
The south road around the building in Dagenham. |
The plant will sort, granulate and super-clean the recycled plastic bottles |
The service yards where the PET will be brought prior to processing. |
The plant is the country’s first PET recycling facility. |
The plant is due to open in December 2007 and has cost £12m to construct and outfit. |
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| Nampak Plastic Bottle Recycling Plant | ||
The recycled content of the milk cartons will be 30% by 2009 but there is potential for this to be 50%. |
The HDPE for the recycled milk carton production will come from several sources. |
Milk cartons will be collected from households via recycling schemes. |
It requires 1.75kg of crude oil to produce 1kg of HDPE so recycling makes sense. |
The thermoplastic properties of HDPE allow it to be melted down and recycled. |
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