CeDo’s plastic waste recycling research adopted by WRAP

Household disposables specialist CeDo’s research into recycling mixed plastics film waste has been used by the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) for a new project looking at integrated mixed plastics waste management solutions in the UK.

The WRAP project supports large-scale trials to recycle mixed plastics from both household and retail-take back schemes and intends to show how these plastics can be sorted and reprocessed back into packaging and other plastic materials. The findings of the project are expected later this month.

“Virtually all of the technical issues in recycling mixed plastics film from the plastic waste stream such as removing print and graphics chemicals and residuals from the recycling equation can be and will be solved,” commented David Brookes, process manager CeDo.

CeDo’s film extraction plant in Telford, UK and recycling plant in Geleen, Holland are currently working to tackle chemical, mechanical and process issues that are experienced with recycling some areas of the plastics waste stream. It is expanding its closed loop plastics recycling initiatives in areas such as industrial and commercial plastics film waste with much of the waste being converted into the company’s EcoMin 2nd life plastic bin liners.