May 18-A Hungarian waste handling company, PCP Z ldenergia, has won ?5m in state aid to establish a country-wide network of 25 recycling plants for plastics scrap.
The new plants, due to be up and running within two years, will each process up to 12,000 tpa of plastics waste, otherwise destined for Hungary s increasingly limited landfill sites. The recycling units will use a polymer degradation process recycling the waste to create an alternative liquid hydrocarbon energy source.
Zoldenergia, based in Baja, southern Hungary, will use the T-Technology process and equipment supplied by its parent company Tokarz T-Technology in the ?50m project. Each plant will include two PCP-700 reactor units together capable of recycling 43,000 m3 of plastics waste.
The processing of plastic waste, due to its relatively high volume, will significantly reduce the area required by landfills, stressed Zoldenergia. This is particularly important to Hungary where waste dump space will be under further pressure this year with the planned closure of 100 existing landfill sites in July.
These sites must close because they do not meet either European Union or national regulations, the company explained.
The new plants will handle both domestic and industrial plastics waste. In Hungary, very little municipal plastics waste material is currently recycled. Overall, the country generates about 4.5 million tonnes of household waste, 86% of this ending up in landfills. Just 3% of the total waste is incinerated to generate electricity and only 11% is recycled after being sorted.
Output from the plants can be used either as a fuel additive or as a raw material for further chemical industry processing.
There are already 11 plastics recycling plants using the technology located in neighbouring Poland, according to the company.
The new plants, due to be up and running within two years, will each process up to 12,000 tpa of plastics waste, otherwise destined for Hungary s increasingly limited landfill sites. The recycling units will use a polymer degradation process recycling the waste to create an alternative liquid hydrocarbon energy source.
Zoldenergia, based in Baja, southern Hungary, will use the T-Technology process and equipment supplied by its parent company Tokarz T-Technology in the ?50m project. Each plant will include two PCP-700 reactor units together capable of recycling 43,000 m3 of plastics waste.
The processing of plastic waste, due to its relatively high volume, will significantly reduce the area required by landfills, stressed Zoldenergia. This is particularly important to Hungary where waste dump space will be under further pressure this year with the planned closure of 100 existing landfill sites in July.
These sites must close because they do not meet either European Union or national regulations, the company explained.
The new plants will handle both domestic and industrial plastics waste. In Hungary, very little municipal plastics waste material is currently recycled. Overall, the country generates about 4.5 million tonnes of household waste, 86% of this ending up in landfills. Just 3% of the total waste is incinerated to generate electricity and only 11% is recycled after being sorted.
Output from the plants can be used either as a fuel additive or as a raw material for further chemical industry processing.
There are already 11 plastics recycling plants using the technology located in neighbouring Poland, according to the company.
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