AWS secures plastic bottle supply for reprocessing

Simeon Goldstein, packagingnews.co.uk, 22 April 2010

 

AWS Eco Plastics is expanding its business with waste management firm Waste Recycling Group (WRG) to reprocess plastic bottles from WRG's Carnaby and Luton facilities.

 

AWS's plant in Lincolnshire will sort the bottles by colour and by polymer type and turn the PET back into pellets to be used in new bottles. The firm already collects material from WRG's Wrexham site.

 

Commercial director Duncan Oakes said it was encouraging companies that it typically dealt with on a spot basis were committing to long-term contracts.

 

"These are not only commercially very competitive, but also smooth the peaks and troughs experienced when selling on the spot market," he said.

 

AWS is currently in the process of rebuilding its site that was damaged in a fire last year. Once the rebuild is complete the firm will be able to handle more than 140,000 tonnes of material a year.

 

"As progress at the site develops, securing additional contracts across the UK is high on our agenda," said Oakes.