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Closed Loop to build second British bottle reclaim plant in Wales

A second plant is to be opened in Britain by Closed Loop Recycling, this time in North Wales.

The Australia-based company opened its first British plant in June in Dagenham, East London, to recycle both PET and HDPE bottles, and expects to be producing food grade material in the next month.

The new plant, on Deeside in Flintshire, will have a 50,000 tonnes annual capacity - bigger than the 35,000 tonnes London facility - and is expected to open in October next year.

A third plant is expected to be in production by the end of 2010 and Closed Loop wants to open up to five facilities in the next five years. The project costs for the new site are put at around £12 million, and Closed Loop has both private equity funding, from Foresight Group, and public sector funding from the Welsh Assembly.

Bottles to feed the plant will be collected by Veolia Environmental Services from local authorities in Wales and the North West of England. Veolia also supplies scrap to the Dagenham plant.

Brands such as Solo Cup Europe, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Nampak and Logoplaste have committed to buying the food-grade recyclate from the new plant.

Closed Loop says that according to a study conducted in 2007, the total number of plastic bottles entering the UK waste stream is approximately 525,000 tonnes a year - around 13 billion bottles. Of these some 4·5 billion bottles are being recycled, with an estimated eight billion bottles being exported or sent to land fill.

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• Closed Loop Recycling and Marks & Spencer Launch Office Recycling Scheme (18.04.2008)

• Expansion Plans Announced (18.03.2008)