The business has commissioned a brand new wash will allow BPI to recycle an additional 25,000 tons of waste material each year, increasing its overall capacity from 70,000 tons to 95,000 tons per annum.
The plant employs features such as low energy, high output motors, energy saving lighting and rainwater harvesting to replace the water it loses each day.
The upgraded Rhymney plant will further enhance BPI’s network of strategically located recycling facilities across the UK, the company said.
It will focus on waste from the agricultural and horticultural sector.
Waste farm plastic continues to be a major problem for British farmers and growers.
Under these schemes, BPI can recover material such as retailers’ back of store polythene waste – for instance shrinkfilm, pallet stretchwrap and garment covers – before supplying the same retailer with recycled products like refuse sacks made from their own waste.
The business is also working with major construction companies with a view to helping them to dispose of their polythene waste, such as aggregate, cement and other sacks, before recycling it and supply that waste back as new products like 100% recycled damp proof membranes.
BPI Recycled Products business director Gerry McGarry said the plant will help to increase our already extensive recycling capabilities, bringing major benefits not only to our business, but also to UK recycling and to the environment as a whole.
