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Media coverage
Suez Environnement and SITA UK (Michael Murray CEO Cynar Plc pictured right)

8th November 2010

Prepared by:
Brunswick Group LLP

CONTENTS

1. UK NATIONALS

• DAILY TELEGRAPH
• DAILY TELEGRPAPH ONLINE

2. LA TRIBUNE

3. BROADCAST

• BBC RADIO FIVE LIVE
• BBC RADIO FOUR TODAY PROGRAMME
• BBC SCOTLAND
• BBC WORLD SERVICE

4. NEWSWIRES

• DOW JONES
• EUROPA PRESS
• BUSINESS AND FINANCE NEWS SERVICE

5. TRADE PRESS

• LETSRECYCLE.COM
• MATERIALS RECYCLING WEEK
• INSIDEIRELAND.IE
• EUROPEAN PLASTICS NEWS
• FAV STOCKS

UK NATIONALS

DAILY TELEGRAPH

The Telegraph online

Sita to turn plastic into diesel to power vehicles

Old carrier bags, yoghurt pots and TV dinner packaging will soon be making enough fuel to power 5,000 British white vans – in Europe's first plastic-to-diesel plant.

By Rowena Mason

Sita will unveil plans to build up to 10 plants that turn plastic into diesel for vehicles such as vans

Sita, the waste company owned by the €7bn (£6bn) French utility Suez Environnement, will on Monday unveil plans to build up to 10 plants, creating 120 jobs and costing an estimated £50m.

The first, likely to be located in the London area, will convert so-called end of life plastics back into oil-based fuel. This is the dregs of plastic waste contaminated by food stuffs, which ordinarily ends up at landfill because it cannot be recycled.

Sita's plants will deal with 60,000 tonnes of mixed waste plastic waste per year – around 17pc of the total – leaving the potential for many more UK plants to be built in future.

Pioneering technology provided by Irish company Cynar has led to the development of the first commercially-viable plastic-to-diesel model.

David Palmer-Jones, chief executive of Sita, said pilots had already been tested successfully and Sita's first full-scale plants are expected to be profitable within five years of operation.

There's a market need, it's environmentally-friendly, there's a saving on carbon emissions and it's cost comparable with regular diesel, the waste boss said.
It would be ideal to see waste trucks powered by the plastics they bring for conversion into fuel, he added.

It is unlikely that the fuel would find its way to the pump, but Sita aims to strike deals with local authorities and companies with commercial vehicle fleets such as hauliers and taxi firms.

The waste company aims to build the plants at the rate of two to three per year, depending on how long it takes to get planning consents.

Sita now has the Europe-wide licence for Cynar's technology and therefore the potential to roll out more plants across the continent if they prove successful.

We believe in the growing demand for diesel due to the year-on-year increase in the proportion of diesel-powered cars, Mr Palmer-Jones said.

This affirms the importance of waste management in both resourcing materials and partnering in the sustainable alternative energy industry.

Meanwhile, only a handful of UK listed companies come within striking distance of complying with current government guidelines on how to report their corporate carbon footprint, according to a report by Deloitte

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Sita-to-turn-plastic-into-diesel-to-power-vehicles

Irish Examiner;
Weblink:
energy-firm-signs-euro70m-british-deal

Irish Independent
Weblink:
Two Firms Create 100 Jobs

La Tribune

Sita UK transforme le plastique en gazole

La filiale de Suez Environnement et son partenaire Cynar donnent une deuxiè me vie au plastique et limitent les quantités de déchets enfouies.

Plusieurs expériences de conversion de plastique en pétrole brutont été couronnées de succès, reconnaît David Palmer-Jones, directeur général de Sita UK. Mais nous, en partenariat avec Cynar, nous allons transformer le plastique en carburant pour diesel immédiatement utilisable pour faire rouler des véhicules, et ce, àune échelle commerciale. » Ce partenariat est initié avec le sou tien du fonds d'investissement de Suez Environnement, Blue Orange, qui sera officiellement lancé à Paris fin novembre et qui réalise là première prise de participation. Il ouvre de grandes perspectives à la filiale britannique de Suez Environnement.

Présent au Royaume-Uni de puis un peu plus de vingt ans, Sita UK a vu évoluer la réglementation sur les déchets. « Le Royaume-Uni était en retard sur le recyclage, mais les gouvernements successifs ont beaucoup fait progresser les choses, notamment en imposant de for tes taxes sur l'enfouissement», témoigne David Palmer-Jones. L'entreprise s'est donc adaptée pour être à même de « donner une deuxième vie aux déchets ». Le partenariat avec Cynar s'ins crit dans une recherche permanente de solutions innovantes pour y parvenir.

«ÉCONOMIE CIRCULAIRE»

Le process consiste à séparer les plastiques à forte valeur tel le PET, utilisé pour les bouteilles, de ceux à moindre valeur, pour les transformer. Une tonne de plastique permet de produire 750 litres de gazole, des petites quantités de kérosène (qui sera mélangé en raffinerie pour fa briquer de l'essence) et du gaz, utilisé pour alimenter le process de production. « Cela forme une boucle, on est vraiment dans l'économie circulaire », se réjouit David Palmer-Jones. L'idée est de vendre la solution aux collectivités locales auprès desquelles serait capté le flux, les ménages étant de gros producteurs de plastiques, via les emballages notamment. Outre une petite contribution des villes, la vente de carburant constituera le principal revenu. Sur le plan environnemental, en plus de substituer le recyclage à l'enfouissement, ce carburant présente sur son cycle de vie un bien meilleur bilan que celui d'origine fossile.

« Nous savons que le marché est énorme », assure David Palmer-Jones. Chacune des dix usines que Sita UK et son partenaire comptent ouvrir au Royaume-Uni avec l'appui de Blue Orange, pourra traiter 6.000 tonnes de plastiques.

La première devrait être opérationnelle au Royaume-Uni à la fin 2011, mais Sita n'en res tera pas là. « Le plastique est par tout et la tendance est au renchérissement de l'enfouissement. » C'est pourquoi l'accord signé avec Cynar prévoit l'exclusivité sur les principaux marchés européens, notamment la France.

BROADCAST COVERAGE

BBC RADIO FIVE LIVE Weblink

BBC RADIO FIVE LIVE

THE CLIP STARTS AT 43 MINS AND 26 SECONDS

BBC RADIO FOUR TODAY PROGRAMME Weblink

BBC RADIO FOUR TODAY

THE CLIP STARTS AT 2 HRS 47 MINS

BBC SCOTLAND Weblink

BBC SCOTLAND

THE CLIP STARTS AT 2HRS 43MINS

BBC WORLD SERVICE Weblink

BBC WORLD SERVICE

NEWSWIRES

DOW JONES
Suez Environnement: SITA UK, Cynar Sign Contract To Build Plant

PARIS (Dow Jones)--French utility Suez Environnement SA (SEV.FR) Monday said its U.K.-based unit Sita U.K. has signed an exclusive deal with Cynar PLC to build the U.K.'s first operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel, with an objective to build ten plants around the country dealing with 60,000 metric tons of mixed plastic waste a year.
No financial details were disclosed.
Sita U.K. is to commission the first of its plants by the end of 2011 in the greater London area, and aims to construct at the rate of two to three plastic to diesel conversion plants per year depending on planning, Suez Environnement said.

EUROPA PRESS
SITA UK y Cynar Pic transformarán plástico en combustible diésel
MADRID, 8 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS)

La empresa de reciclaje y gestión de recursos SITA UK, filial de Suez Environnement, ha firmado un acuerdo con Cynar Pic para la construcción de diez plantas en Gran Bretaña para el tratamiento de 60.000 toneladas de diferentes tipos de residuos plásticos por año y su transformación en combustible diésel, informó las compañía en un comunicado. SITA UK explicó que entre los objetivos de este acuerdo se encuentra el de poner en servicio la primera planta en el área metropolitana de Londres a finales de 2011. La firma tiene la intención de construir un promedio de dos a tres plantas de conversión de plástico en diésel por año.

Cada una de estas instalaciones está diseñada para convertir alrededor de 6.000 toneladas de diferentes tipos de residuos plásticos por año, especialmente los destinados originalmente a vertederos de basura y para producir más de 4 millones de litros de plástico al final de su vida en combustible diésel de especificación.

SITA UK indicó que la construcción de estas diez plantas en Reino Unido permitirá la creación de 100 nuevos puestos de trabajo y explicó que el fondo de inversión de Suez Environnement, Blue Orange, apoyará a su filial al plan de financiación. La compañía señaló que el acuerdo con Cynar Pic hará que Gran Bretaña avance en sus intentos de gestionar los diferentes tipos de residuos plásticos con una solución eficiente para el medio ambiente y permite generar energía.

BUSINESS AND FINANCE NEWS SERVICE

Irish recycling firm signs major deal
Cynar Plc of Portlaoise has signed an agreement with SITA UK, one of the UK's leading recycling and resource management companies, to build Britain's first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel.
The aim is to build 10 UK plastic to diesel conversion plants dealing with 60,000 tonnes of mixed plastic waste per year, and commission the first plant in London by the end of 2011.

Cynar is focused on new conversion technology. This agreement represents a major milestone for the firm in its expansion in international markets. The company has developed a technology which converts a variety of waste plastics into liquid fuels and which will now form a critical element in the roll out of the SITA UK plants across the UK.
Each plant is designed to convert approximately 6,000 tonnes of mixed waste plastic annually, specifically targeting mixed waste plastic diverted from landfill, and to produce in excess of 4 million litres of end of life plastic into specification diesel fuel.
SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT's venture fund Blue Orange will contribute to the financing scheme together with SITA UK and help capitalise on the innovation dynamic of the project.

SITA UK's agreement with Cynar will contribute to Britain's attempt to deal with mixed waste plastic with a solution that is both environmentally efficient and energy productive, according to Cynar.

Traditionally, mixed waste plastic has been sent to landfill as no economically viable alternative way of treating it has been developed. Today's announcement means that this can now be given a second life as a sustainable alternative to diesel, said David Palmer-Jones, Chief Executive of SITA UK.

Michael Murray, CEO Cynar, said, We are excited by the prospect of seeing our technology becoming both a manufacturing and mainstream reality and a market first thanks to today's transformative agreement with SITA UK.

TRADE PRESS

LETSRECYCLE.COM

SITA signs deal to develop plastics-to-fuel plants
By Nick Mann
SITA UK has signed a deal with an Irish-based technology company which it says will enable it to build 10 facilities around the UK aimed at turning a total of 60,000 tonnes-a-year of waste mixed plastics into diesel fuel. The French-owned waste management company today (November 8) revealed that, under its exclusive agreement to use Cynar Plc plastics-to-fuel conversion technology, it aimed to commission the first of the plants by the end of 2011 in the Greater London area.
And, it then plants to construct the remainder of the facilities at the rate of two or three a year, depending on planning issues.
Each plant is expected to treat around 6,000 tonnes of waste mixed plastics a year, specifically targeting material diverted from landfill, and producing more than four million litres a year of ‘End of Life Plastic Diesel' specification diesel fuel. Cynar, opened a £5 million facility in Leinster, in the Republic of Ireland, in March 2010 (see letsrecycle.com story), using pyrolysis to break down plastic feedstock into synthetic fuel.
Outlining its reasons for pursuing the project, SITA UK highlighted the one and a half million tonnes of mixed plastics that is not recycled every year in the UK.
It also claimed that the fuel produced by the plastics-to-fuel process was expected to cost less to produce than normal diesel, and have a lower carbon footprint, while having fuel qualities on a par with conventional diesel without any further refining - making it suitable for commercial use.

Landmark agreement

SITA UK's chief executive, David Palmer-Jones, said: We are delighted to announce this landmark agreement with Cynar which will see us provide a commercial solution to the environmental challenge of treating waste plastic that can not be recycled. We aim to build around ten facilities in the first tranche of development that will convert waste plastic into diesel fuel known as End of Life Plastic Diesel.

Michael Murray, chief executive of Cynar Plc, said he was excited about seeing the company's technology enter the mainstream under the deal with SITA UK.

And, he added: We believe Cynar has found an entrepreneurial partner in SITA UK who can help us ensure that the years of our research will be realised in the near future with vehicles running on plastic-derived diesel, and ensuring that there is a practical commercial benefit derived from dealing with Britain's growing mixed waste plastic mountain.
The Blue Orange venture fund which is run by SITA UK' s parent company Suez Environnement is contributing to the financing of the project, alongside SITA itself. However, a spokeswoman for SITA UK could not reveal details of the amount of money involved in the scheme.

MATERIALS RECYCLING WEEK
Sita signs agreement to build first waste plastic to diesel facilities
8 November 2024
By Philip Reynolds

An agreement to build Britain’s first end-of-life plastic to diesel conversion facilities has been signed by Sita UK and Cynar Plc.

The exclusive agreement will see Sita UK construct 10 plants around the UK, the first of which will be commissioned in greater London by the end of 2011, with subsequent facilities built at the rate of two to three per year. The facilities will target the 1.5 million tonnes of mixed plastic waste a year not recycled in the UK, and will use Cynar plastic refinement processes to convert 6,000 tonnes of mixed plastic waste a year into four million litres of diesel fuel – known as End of Life Plastic Diesel (ELPD).

ELPD is of a similar quality to conventional diesel, meaning that the fuel will not require further refining for commercial use, and is expected to be produced at a lower cost than normal diesel, with a lower carbon footprint.
Cynar Plc chief executive Michael Murray described the agreement with Sita as “transformative”, adding: “We are excited by the prospect of seeing our technology becoming both a manufacturing and mainstream reality.

“We believe Cynar has found an entrepreneurial partner in Sita UK who can help us ensure that the years of our research will be realised in the near future with vehicles running on plastic-derived diesel, and ensuring that there is a practical commercial benefit derived from dealing with Britain’s growing mixed waste plastic mountain.”

INSIDEIRELAND.IE

Laois firm signs UK plastic to diesel deal
By Rebekah Hall
Portlaoise firm Cynar Plc has signed a deal to build Britain’s first plants to convert plastic into diesel fuel.

The Enterprise Ireland-backed company has announced an exclusive agreement with SITA UK, one of the UK’s leading recycling and resource management companies.

The fuel qualities of the recycled diesel will be on a par with conventional diesel according to SITA UK. The objective is to build ten UK plastic to diesel conversion plants, each designed to convert approximately 6,000 tonnes of mixed waste plastic annually, specifically targeting mixed waste plastic diverted from landfill, and to produce in excess of four million litres of end of life plastic into specification diesel fuel.

David Palmer-Jones, Chief Executive of SITA UK, said: Traditionally, mixed waste plastic has been sent to landfill as no economically viable alternative way of treating it has been developed. Today’s announcement means that this can now be given a second life as a sustainable alternative to diesel.

SITA UK’s agreement with Cynar will take Britain forward as it attempts to deal with mixed waste plastic with a solution that is both environmentally efficient and energy productive.

Waste plastic recovery process is expected to be produced at below the cost of normal diesel and the fuel itself is expected to have a lower carbon footprint than conventional diesel.

The fuel qualities of the recycled diesel will be on a par with conventional diesel, without the need for any further refining and therefore suitable for commercial use, he added.

Welcoming the announcement Greg Treston, Head of High Potential Start Ups and Scaling at Enterprise Ireland said: “Enterprise Ireland has worked closely with Cynar and is delighted to have supported this highly innovative export-oriented company. The technology is first class, and it is the type of high value business that is so important for the growth of the enterprise sector in Ireland.”

EUROPEAN PLASTICS NEWS

Sita to convert end of life plastic into car fuel
By Charlotte Eyre
Sita, the waste company owned by France-based Suez Environnement, says it will build 10 plants across the UK to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. The company will commission the first plant in London by the end of 2011. Each plant – Sita is aiming for 10 in total - will convert 6,000 tonnes of mixed waste plastic per year to produce four million litres of diesel. The company will build two to three conversion plants per year, depending on planning. The fuel will primarily be used by Sita vehicles as well as bulk transport companies such as lorry firms, the company told European Plastics News.

Sita signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar to develop the conversion technology.
“The process we are using involves shredding or chipping the plastic, which is pre-melted,” says Stuart Haywood-Higham, Sita’s technical director. “We then apply a pyrolys process, which allows us to re-crack the waste into liquid.” After the impurities are removed by a vacuum process, the resulting material is mainly diesel, he added. Any waste that is not plastic comes out as char.

Sita says it has not yet decided on total levels of investment but that Suez Environnement’s new venture fund, Blue Orange, will contribute. It has not received any subsidies as yet but may look for grants in the future, says Haywood-Higham. “This is a financially viable project and we expect to make some profit, even though the focus of the initiative was to provide a tangible solution for customers,” he says.
UK-based Cynar specialises in converting mixed waste plastics into synthetic fuels and already has a plant in operation in Portloaise, Ireland.
The company has a multi-country deal with Suez Environnement, whose subsidiaries will announce similar conversion deals at a later date, says Sita.

FAV STOCKS

SITA UK and Cynar to build UK’s first commercial plants to convert waste plastic to diesel
FavStocks
By Green Car Congress on 11/08/2024

SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. Cynar is a UK company established to commercialize the ThermoFuel technology exclusively licensed to it in the UK and Ireland by its owners, Ozmotech Pty Ltd. The waste plastics to hydrocarbon fuels liquefaction technology is based on pyrolysis and distillation.

Cynar’s first plant is built and operating in Portlaoise, Ireland. The objective of the new agreement is to build 10 UK plants dealing with 60,000 tonnes of mixed plastic waste per year and to commission the first plant in London by end 2011. Suez Environment will commission the first of the plants by the end of 2011 in the greater London area. SITA UK aims to construct at the rate of two to three plastic to diesel conversion plants per year depending on planning.
Each plant is designed to convert approximately 6,000 tonnes of mixed waste plastic annually, specifically targeting mixed waste plastic diverted from landfill, and to produce in excess of 4 million liters (1.056 million gallons US) of specification diesel fuel.

Suez Environment’s venture fund Blue Orange will contribute to the financing scheme together with SITA UK. The waste plastic recovery process is expected to be produced at below the cost of normal diesel and the fuel itself is expected to have a lower carbon footprint than conventional diesel. The fuel qualities of the recycled diesel will be on a par with conventional diesel, without the need for any further refining and therefore suitable for commercial use. Cynar system. Plastic waste is continuously treated in a cylindrical chamber and the pyrolytic gases condensed in a specially-designed condenser system to yield predominantly straight chain aliphatic hydrocarbons with little formation of by-products. These hydrocarbons are then selectively condensed and cleaved further catalytically to produce the average carbon chain length required for distillate fuel.
The plastic is pyrolized at 370 ºC-420 ºC and the pyrolysis gases are condensed in a 2-stage condenser to produce a low-sulfur distillate. (Pyrolysis is a process of thermal degradation in the absence of oxygen.) The system consists of stock infeed system, pyrolysis chambers, contactors, distillation, centrifuge, oil recovery line, off-gas cleaning, and residual contamination removal.
Waste plastics are loaded via a hot-melt infeed system directly into main pyrolysis chamber. Agitation evens the temperature and homogenizes the feedstocks. Pyrolysis then commences and the plastic becomes a vapor. Non-plastic materials fall to the bottom of the chamber.
The vapor is converted into the various fractions in the distillation column, the distillates then pass into the recovery tanks. From the recovery tanks, the product is sent to a centrifuge to remove contaminants such as water or carbon. The cleaned distillates are then pumped to the storage tanks.

Machinery company to create up to 50 jobs
Irish Examiner
Tuesday, November 09, 2024 - 01:55 PM
Up to 50 jobs will be created after a Portlaoise company secured a contract with a UK recycling firm.

Cynar is to build 10 machines to convert waste plastic into diesel fuel for SITA.

Each appliance will be able to handle 6,000 tonnes of waste.

Cynar CEO Michael Murray said that the jobs will not necessarily be in the midlands, as SITA plants will be built around the country.

Sita to build Europe's first waste-to-diesel plant in UK news
Domain-b.com
09 November 2024
Waste management company Sita, owned by French utility Suez Environment, plans to set up Europe's first plastic-to-diesel facility which will turn carrier bags, yoghurt pots and ready meal packaging into fuel for vehicles. In fact, Sita has drawn up plans for setting up 10 plants in the UK, costing an estimated £50 million that will also create 120 new jobs.

The first plant is expected to be set up in the London area.
Every year around 1.5 million tonnes of mixed plastics do not reach recycling plants in the UK, says Sita. Thanks to Irish company Cynar's cutting edge technology, Sita's new plant would able to turn around 6,000 tonnes of waste plastic into 4 million litres of plastic-to-diesel fuel every year.
According to experts the fuel produced in the plastic-to-diesel process would cost less to produce and have a lower carbon footprint than standard diesel. The diesel would also be suitable for use in commercial vehicles. The company says it has already successfully tested pilot plants and its first full-scale plants are expected to be profitable within five years of operation.

SITA UK, Cynar Sign Agreement to Build Plastics Recycling Facilities in U.K.
Recycling Today
11/8/2024
Companies hope to build up to 10 facilities in the United Kingdom.
SITA UK, a subsidiary of the French waste management firm Suez Environnement, has signed a technology agreement with Cynar Plc to build a facility in the United Kingdom that will recycle end-of-life plastic scrap into diesel fuel. According to a Suez Environnement announcement, the objective is to build 10 plans in the U.K. that will handle a total of 60,000 metric tons of mixed plastic scrap per year. The goal is to commission the first plant in London by the end of 2011. Cynar, based in the United Kingdom, has developed a conversion technology process that converts various types of scrap plastics into fuel.

SITA UK says that it plans to build two to three plastic-to-diesel conversion plants each year, depending on market conditions. Each facility is designed to convert about 6,000 metric tons of mixed plastic per year that would otherwise be landfilled.

Suez Environnement’s venture fund Blue Orange, along with SITA UK, will provide the financing to build the facilities. SITA claims that the fuel qualities of the recycled diesel will be on a par with conventional diesel without the need for further refining and therefore suitable for commercial use.
David Palmer-Jones, chief executive of SITA UK, says, “We are delighted to announce this landmark agreement with Cynar, which will see us provide a commercial solution to the environmental challenge of treating waste plastic that can’t be recycled. We aim to build around ten facilities in the first tranche of development that will convert waste plastic into diesel fuel known as end-of-life plastic diesel.”
Michael Murray, CEO of Cynar, says, “We are excited by the prospect of seeing our technology becoming both a manufacturing and mainstream reality and a market first, thanks to today’s transformative agreement with SITA UK. We believe Cynar has found an entrepreneurial partner in SITA UK who can help us ensure that the years of our research will be realized in the near future with vehicles running on plastic-derived diesel, and ensuring that there is a practical commercial benefit derived from dealing with Britain’s growing mixed waste plastic mountain.”

TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk (blog)
8.11.10
We could soon be driving on plastic power after SITA UK reached an agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first plant to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel.

SITA is one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies while Cynar was established to commercialise ThermoFuel technology. It built its first plant in Portlaoise, Ireland, and now the objective of the new agreement is to build 10 UK plants dealing with 60,000 tonnes of mixed plastic waste a year and to commission the first plant in London by the end of 2011.

Each plant will also convert approximately 6,000 tonnes of mixed waste plastic annually with the aim of targeting plastic that is diverted from landfill to produce in excess of four million litres of specification diesel fuel. As an added bonus, the waste plastic recovery process should be produced at below the cost of normal diesel with the fuel itself to have a lower carbon footprint than conventional diesel. The qualities of the recycled diesel will be on a par with conventional diesel and there will be no need for further refining.

So how does the Cynar system work?

It sees the plastic waste treated in a cylindrical chamber with the pyrolytic gases condensed in a specially designed chamber. The hydrocarbons are then selectively condensed and cleaved to produce the average carbon chain length that is required for distillate fuel.

Plastic is pyrolised and condensed in a two stage condenser to produce a low sulphur distillate. The waste plastics are then loaded via a hot melt in-feed system into the main pyrolysis chamber with non-plastics falling to the bottom. The vapour is then converted into the various fractions in the distillation column and the product is sent to a centrifuge to remove contaminants such as water and carbon.

Diesel from food packaging
What Car?
Tuesday, November 09, 2024

• Recycling firm to produce diesel from waste
• Saving 60,000 tonnes from land-fill sites
• First plant planned for London

Waste plastics that are destined for land-fill sites could soon be filling your car's fuel tank.

SITA UK, a leading recycling company, is planning to build 10 plants throughout the country to convert domestic waste plastics, such as food packaging, into fully operational diesel fuel.

The first plant is to be commissioned by the end of 2011 and will be located in the London area.

Each of the planned plants will be designed to convert 6000 tonnes of waste plastic annually, which will then produce four million litres of diesel.

Cheaper than conventional diesel, says SITA
SITA UK says the waste plastic diesel can be produced at below the cost of normal diesel and will have a lower carbon footprint than the conventionally produced fuel. The quality of the diesel will be on par with traditional fuel and can be used commercially.

David Palmer-Jones, chief executive of SITA UK, said: 'Traditionally, mixed waste plastic has been sent to landfill as no economically viable alternative way of treating it has been developed. Today’s announcement means that this can now be given a second life as a sustainable alternative to diesel.'

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