Development and commercialisation of a solution for recycling and valorising contaminated hospital plastic waste

回收和利用受污染的医院塑料废物的解决方案的开发和商业化

• 批准号: 104742
• 金额: $ 37.94万
• 依托单位: THERMAL COMPACTION GROUP LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=104742
• 关键词: Development; commercialisation; solution; recycling; valorising

"As the generation of single use plastic wastes increases within the healthcare sector, its handling and treatment is steadily becoming a serious economic and environmental issue. This continual increase in waste is forcing the government, healthcare providers and the related facilities management companies to actively explore ways to effectively utilize the generated hospital plastic waste. Currently, this waste is either incinerated or landfilled- costing up to £1000/ton to the hospitals, depending upon the level of contamination. With more than 500,000tons of plastic waste to deal with each year, NHS is actively looking to reduce the volume of plastic used and find a circular solution to prevent the landfill and/or incineration of this plastic and hence enable cost savings.We, Thermal Compaction Group (TCG), through this project aim to develop a point-of-origin thermal compaction machine 'Sterimlet-2' which will recycle all hospital plastic waste by converting them into 20kg briquettes for reuse. The Machine will initially be processing blue-wrap and disposable curtains waste but it is believed that the technology can be adapted for many other disposable plastics.Sterimelt-2 will not only divert large amounts of plastic waste away from landfill and/or incineration, but it will also reduce the carbon footprint and costs created by transporting this very lightweight and space hungry material, supporting the NHS sustainability goals."

随着医疗保健部门内塑料废物的产生的产生，其处理和治疗正在悄悄成为一个严重的经济和环境问题。浪费的这种持续增加迫使政府，医疗保健提供者和相关的设施管理公司积极探索如何有效地探索有效的医院塑料废物。目前，这种废物是造成的。 NHS的污染物都有超过500,000吨的塑料废物来应对，正在积极地寻求减少所用塑料的数量易用的煤球。该机器最初将处理蓝包和一次性窗帘浪费，但据信，该技术可以适用于许多其他一次性塑料。Sterimelt-2不仅将使大量塑料废物从垃圾填埋场和/或感染中转移，而且还将通过降低碳足迹和成本来降低这种非常轻巧的目标，并降低了碳足迹，可实现这一难度，并支持nhhub ye nhhh nhhh''''''''''''''''''