New Luton plant recycles laminate packaging waste

3 February 2010

A PILOT recycling plant has been opened in Luton that recycles laminate packaging waste such as toothpaste tubes, drink cartons and coffee sachets.

Laminate packaging has proved particularly difficult to recycle. However, Enval – a privately funded environmental technology solutions company which is behind the facility – said tests it had been carrying out demonstrated that laminate packaging can now be “completely recycled in a sustainable and economic way”.

The company arose out of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge, where it has its headquarters and a facility which has been testing the process over the past year.

The process separates the aluminium from the ‘plastic’ laminates, and recovers 100% of the aluminium while converting the plastics into usable oils and gases.

Enval chairman Martin Lamb said: “Flexible packaging systems based on plastic/aluminium laminates are widely used because of their many positive attributes, but the absence of a viable recycling process for them is a major drawback and is creating an increasing landfill problem.

“This additional facility will allow Enval to rapidly scale its operations and will be used to demonstrate the ability of the Enval pilot-plant to operate continuously on significant volumes of waste.”

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