Peel NRE redefines innovation with plastic-aluminium separation and recycling plant in the UK

The Manchester-based forerunner for waste management, Peel NRE has provided a scheme to construct a circle of recycling units within the territory of the broader Ince Park site in Ellesmere Port. The installations will aim at separating plastic from aluminium in foils and recycling them separately for renewed materials. The report has been notified as an important one and has been put down for approval.

Aluminium is inserted in layers during the production of aseptic cartons because it diminishes the chance of oxidation and light damage, keeping perishable food safe with only preservatives and no necessary refrigeration.

The facility chain, also known as Resource Recovery Park (RRP) or Protos, is spread over 331 acres of land at the Ince Marshes.

Peel NRE and part Peel L&P applicant, Richard Barker wishes to gain permission for two plastics recycling facilities on Plot 11 and 12, a polymer laminate recycling facility and a hydrogen refuelling station on plot 9b, along with a material recycling facility on plot 10a, all located at Protos, upon the Ince Marshes past Grinsome Road.

The report claimed: "The proposal is for an integrated waste recycling and recovery park, which would assist in meeting the local and national need for increased plastic recycling. As such, the proposal would positively contribute to meeting climate change initiatives and waste recovery in terms of managing waste.”

Using the microwave pyrolysis process, the polymer laminate recycling facility would recycle 2,500 tonnes of plastic aluminium laminates every year. Peel NRE pioneers in separating the aluminium layer from plastic to individually process them into renewed materials. After separation, the plastic would be transformed into oil by pyrolysis while the aluminium would be melted to make more aluminium products.

The first plastic recycling unit would segregate 200,000 tonnes of mixed waste plastic each year into different genres to be treated later, whereas the second plastic recycling facility would recycle 90,000 tonnes of pre-sorted waste plastic per annum into recycled flaked plastic for utilising again in plastic production.

The 75,000 tonnes of dry mixed recyclable materials emerging from household kerbside collections, waste management organisations and commercial premises would be differentiated, processed and assigned in the material recycling facilities.

The northern half of Plot 9b will host the hydrogen refuelling station which would be connected with the plastic facility on Plot 10b, either by a pipeline or via tankers. Other than that, the hydrogen power would be only used by Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs).

The official report remains opinionated towards the approval of Peel NRE’s application way before the scheduled meeting of Cheshire West and Chester Council’s planning committee to be held on July 5.

“The proposal would develop a safeguarded site and support economic growth,” the company concluded.