UK MP Applauds Advanced Recycling Plant
The UK Member of Parliament for Sevenoaks and Swanley, Laura Trott, has visited QM Recycled Energy (QMRE) in Kent and spoken of her pleasure at seeing how can be plastics recycled back into oil and then back to renewable plastics. QMRE utilizes a technology known as thermolysis – a form of pyrolysis to turn plastics waste back into the oil it was originally made from and, using an additional process, turns the oil back into renewable plastics. The company plans to set up a nationwide network of plastics waste-2-oil processing depots. The site at Fawkham is the company’s test, development, and demonstration unit aimed at showcasing the system to a wide range of potential customers including supermarket groups, recycling operators, retail parks, industrial parks, food production companies, anaerobic digestion, the farming industry, commercial businesses, the NHS and local authorities amongst others. Trott saw how the waste plastics are cleaned and size-reduced and fed into what is, in e