Sutco to build plastics recycling plant in Sweden
Sutco, a manufacturer of waste treatment plants, announced last week (27 October) that it is building a second Motala plastics recycling plant in Sweden.
The manufacturer is working in partnership with Norwegian engineering firm Mepex Consult and the customer Svensk Plaståtervinning (Swedish Plastics Recycling).
The project is titled Motala II, following the building of Motala I in 2017. Together, both recycling plants are set to have a capacity of 200,000 tonnes of plastic packaging per annum.
Sutco said that Motala II is scheduled for completion in 2023 and planned to sort 12 different types of plastic. The company added that secondary raw materials such as PP, HDPE, LDPE, PET trays, coloured and clear PET bottles, PP film, EPS, PS, PVC, two types of polyolefin blends to metal and non-plastic waste will be sorted metres and returned for further processing.
Sutco is a multinational company, with six subsidiaries – in Poland, Great Britain, Spain, Brasil, Singapore and Sweden.
Portsmouth partners with Biffa to expand HVO trial
Portsmouth city council announced last week (27 October) that it has switched the majority of its vans from diesel to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) in a trial that began last month.
The local authority added that the initiative is expected to be adopted permanently. The move comes after the council switched two of its waste collection trucks to HVO last year.
The council said that it is working in partnership with waste management company Biffa, which enables it to refuel at the company’s depot in Anchorage Park. As the trial progresses, the team aim to expand it by working to deliver and store their own HVO supply, the local authority noted.
According to the council, the diesel oil alternative is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by over 90% and other harmful pollutants by over 80% in the trial vehicles.
The council explained that HVO is made from renewable raw materials such as fat, waste vegetables and other oils. It added that it is a synthetic fuel with an identical chemical composition to diesel, “making it readily compatible with the team’s vans”.
Durham launches recycling awareness campaign
Durham county council has encouraged residents to be mindful when placing items in their bins, reminding them that better sorting of materials will help the council save money.
The council launched a campaign, titled What Goes Where, which is asking residents to be aware of what can and cannot be recycled when disposing of household waste.
The local authority raised awareness about contaminants, which can cause the entire contents of a recycling bin to be rejected. This includes items such as used nappies, food and dog waste, polystyrene and takeaway pizza boxes.
The council also encouraged residents not to use black refuse bags in their recycling bin as these can’t be checked for recyclables at sorting plants and are therefore considered as contamination and disposed of as waste.
Cllr Mark Wilkes, cabinet member for neighbourhoods and climate change, said: “It actually costs significantly more to dispose of contaminated waste than it does to process uncontaminated recycling. The more materials recycled, the lower the cost of collecting waste and the more efficient the council can be.”
Tegosgroup adds navigation app to its digitisation platform
Software solutions company tegosgroup announced that it has added the navigation app What3Words into the TegosSuite, a digitisation platform for the waste and recycling sector.
The company said that What3Words is now part of other apps and services that are helping companies facilitate their transformation towards a more modern business model.
It added that all elements of the TegosSuite platform are interconnected, with no interface obstructing the flow of data.
The app has already been implemented with the company’s customers, including Grundon, the company continued.
What3Words is said to enable precise location selection and can be used to direct to a site entrance, location of equipment or services, offering far more precise information than a post code.
Simon Arnold, financial director at Grundon Waste, commented: “At Grundon, integrating our Microsoft Dynamics system seamlessly with what3words enables us to precisely direct our drivers to the container location at our customers sites, this leads to improved efficiency and ultimately, increased customer satisfaction levels.”
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