A company set up to develop recycling technologies for plastic waste has secured the advisory services of one of the UK’s foremost waste recycling experts. Recycling Technologies, a spinout company from the University of Warwick, has welcomed Peter Jones OBE to the team as an adviser to the board. Mr Jones worked as a director …
Former Biffa director Peter Jones OBE has joined plastic company Recycling Technologies as an advisor to the board. Recycling Technologies is a company that has been formed to commercialise the development of a plastic recycling technique originally developed by the University of Warwick. Using an advanced fluidised bed reactor, the WarwickFBR technology turns mixed plastics …
A Swindon-based company set up to develop recycling technologies for plastic waste has secured the advisory services of one of the UK’s foremost waste recycling experts. Recycling Technologies, a spinout company from the University of Warwick, has welcomed Peter Jones to the team as an adviser to the board. Mr Jones worked as a director …
OCTOBER 2012, LONDON. We are pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Jones OBE as advisor to the board. Adrian Griffiths, MD at Recycling Technologies comments: “We are absolutely delighted that Peter has agreed to join the team in an advisory role to the board. His knowledge of the industry and waste technologies is already …
Plastic is notoriously difficult to recycle – currently only 12% of household plastic waste is reprocessed. The rest is either burned or goes to landfill, a situation that is made worse by the high cost of collection of these materials and the lack of recycling plants that deal with them. However, Professor Jan Baeyens and …
Researchers at Warwick University are developing techniques that could mark a breakthrough in recycling technology. The team on campus have been researching and experimenting with methods of recycling all types of plastic as, at the moment, only certain types of materials can be recycled. This reusable material amounts to just 12 percent of all plastics, …
On average we each consume 120 grammes of plastic wrapping on Christmas gifts most of which is of a type which is almost impossible to recycle. Now researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a new technique which could process 100% of Christmas and other household plastic instead of the tiny fraction that currently …
According to facts discovered by scientists at University of Warwick, only 12 percent of plastic sent to depots actually gets recycled. This is due to problems such as different types of plastic being combined in one product, recycling therefore become a complex issue to hand, other issue such as glued-on paper labels, which are not …