First plastic bottle auto sort facility introduced in Northern Ireland.Irish Polymers of Crumlin Crumlin may refer to
Northern Ireland Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupying the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland. Area: 5,461 sq mi (14,144 sq km). Population (2001): 1,685,267. , has opened the first fully automatic sort facility for post-consumer plastic bottles in Northern Ireland. The new plant represents an investment of 1.5 million Euros. Up until this point, plastic bottles collected throughout Ireland Ireland, Irish Eire (âr`ə) [to it are related the poetic Erin and perhaps the Latin Hibernia], island, 32,598 sq mi (84,429 sq km), second largest of the British Isles. for recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. were baled and shipped off the island. At the new 20,000-square-foot plant in Northern Ireland, post-consumer bottles are being automatically sorted into various polymer types using German technology. Irish Polymers plans to process around 10,000 metric tons of mixed plastic bottles within the next year. This material will be collected from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, representing as much as 60 percent of what is collected totally on the island. |
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