The company currently has a sorting plant at its site at Langley, near Slough, along with HDPE plastic recycling machinery.
” The site we are looking at is much bigger than our current site at Langley “
– Chris Baylis, Baylis Recycling
Baylis takes mixed cans and plastic from local authorities, these are sorted at the Langley site and the HDPE is washed and granulated, while the cans and PET is sold on to be recycled by another company.
But Baylis is set to begin recycling both HDPE and PET plastic in-house, when it sets up a new plant in Surrey. The company is still at the very early stages of planning the site, but believes it has found premises suitable for the plant.
The HDPE recycling plant at Langley has the capacity to recycle 15,000 tonnes of plastic per year and Mr Baylis said that he would expect the Surrey plant to at least equal this capacity.
Chris Baylis, managing director at Baylis Recycling, told letsrecycle.com: “The site we are looking at is much bigger than our current site at Langley. It will certainly house PET recycling equipment and a sorter, but the extra space will mean there will be the potential to expand further in future.”
Expansion
Mr Baylis said that material collected from local authorities would be taken to the nearest site for sorting. The plastic would then either stay on site or be transferred to the other site for reprocessing. The cans would continue to be sold to an aluminium recycler.
The company currently collects its materials from local authorities in the South East of England via its household plastic bottle recycling service. To optimise collections, compactors and balers are installed at local authority's collection sites.
Baylis Recycling is already looking to add additional contracts with local authorities in the area in order to provide material for the new plant when it is ready.
Mr Baylis added: “As more local authorities begin recycling plastic, there is more tonnage in the London area that needs to be sorted, we want that plastic.”
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