Veolia
Veolia has acquired recycling premises in Dagenham
Resource management company, Veolia UK, has acquired manufacturing assets in East London that will enable it to unlock the complete supply chain for manufacturing plastic bottles from recycled material.
The Dagenham-based reprocessing facility formerly belonged to Euro Closed Loop Recycling, which entered administration earlier this year.
Veolia says its acquisition of the site allows it to now offer the complete range of services, from collection of raw feedstock (waste plastic bottles) direct from people’s homes or businesses, through all the recycling steps, and back to food grade pellets ready to be blown into new plastic milk bottles.
A boost to domestic recycling
It says the move will boost the UK’s domestic recycling capability, create 30 permanent jobs and enable the company to make and sell a high value product from the 200 million plastic milk bottles it collects annually.
"We are very interested to collaborate in this space since co-operation with the manufacturing sector, the people actually making things from recovered materials, is essential in order to be successful for the long term,” commented Estelle Brachlianoff, Senior Executive Vice President, Veolia UK and Ireland.
“This is a great opportunity to work in tandem with our Rainham plastic recycling facility to turn the high density polyethylene (HDPE) milk bottles back into bottles and we are excited at mastering the full supply chain by moving into this type of manufacturing. This shows once again Veolia’s commitment to investment in the UK.”
Endorsement from London Mayor
The new business will produce around 10,000 tonnes of high quality food grade HDPE pellets annually.
Recycling this material requires 75 percent less energy to make a plastic bottle than using ‘virgin’ materials, and this equates to conserving enough energy to power around 20,000 homes and saving 10,000 tpa of carbon emissions.
The move also complements Veolia’s recent commitment as a Core Partner to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s campaign to support the Plastics Economy.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “I am determined to redouble efforts to increase the amount London recycles so I am delighted that Veolia has purchased this important facility. This plant will be able to recycle all of the capital’s empty milk bottles – a mountain of waste that would otherwise have been sent to landfill. This is good news for London and good news for the environment.”