AWS Eco Plastics Lands Contract with U.K. Firm

AWS Eco Plastics Ltd., based in the United Kingdom, announced that it has secured a contract with Waste Recycling Group Ltd. (WRG) to collect and recycle baled plastic bottles from two WRG sites in the U.K. The site are in Carnaby and Luton.

AWS says that the new contract compliments an existing arrangement between the two companies for collecting plastic bottles from WRG’s Wrexham, U.K., site and is one of several mixed bottle contracts secured by AWS in recent months.

The bottles will be recycled at AWS’s plastic bottle recycling plant in Lincolnshire and will see the material sorted by color and polymer with the PET element being converted into AWS’s PET 78 pellet, suitable for the manufacture of new bottles in the U.K.

“This is a further positive step towards helping achieve the recently announced recycling targets set by DEFRA, driving the UK recycling rates to levels comparable with other European countries. It is encouraging that many of the waste management companies we would typically deal with on a spot basis can see the benefits of committing to long-term contracts, which are not only commercially very competitive but also smooth the peaks and troughs experienced when selling in the spot market,” says Duncan Oakes, AWS’s commercial director.

“Once our fire ravaged plastic bottle sorting facility is rebuilt, later this year, it will have the capacity to process upwards of 140,000 metric tons per year and as progress at the site develops, securing additional contracts across the UK is high on our agenda,” Oakes adds.