Plastic Parks - A reminder31 May 2020 14:12
Peel Environmental calls for £7.5bn investment in Plastic Parks across
the UK
Waste and infrastructure business Peel Environmental – part of Peel L&P – has said that the UK
needs to invest over £7.5bn in infrastructure to deal with plastic waste over the next 10 years.
The company has set out a vision for ‘Plastic Parks’ across the UK which would revolutionise the
way that plastic waste is currently handled. The parks would provide a complete solution for the
4.9 million tonnes of plastic waste generated in the UK each year, preventing it ending up in
landfill, exported overseas or in the ocean.
The Plastic Parks will deal with plastic waste where recycling has previously not been a viable
option. They will take plastic that’s at the end of its life, maximising what can be removed for
recycling, with the remaining non-recyclable plastic used to create electricity, hydrogen or other
products.
Working in partnership with Waste2Tricity, Peel Environmental has thrown its support behind
pioneering waste plastic to hydrogen technology that is set to revolutionise the waste market
while kick-starting the emerging hydrogen economy in the UK. The company has signed an
exclusivity agreement to deploy the PowerHouse Energy Group (AIM:PHE) technology in the UK.
The first facility is set to be developed at Peel Environmental’s Protos site in Cheshire, as part of
the first Plastic Park, having recently been granted planning consent.
Other technologies to feature at the Plastic Parks will break plastic back into its component parts
to reduce reliance on virgin fossil fuels. With a network of Plastic Parks envisaged across the UK,
each one can be tailored to local needs, providing local councils with the comfort that their
plastic waste is being handled responsibly.
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