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Paper Round installs UK's first
compostables specific sorting line
Paper Round has announced the The sorting line has a belt configuration,
commissioning of a new sorting line at its bin lifts and a compactor with sorting
facility in Essex for the Vegware stations for trained pickers to identify non-
compostable catering disposables it target items, such as conventional plastics
collects in London, Brighton and Sussex. or cans in material presented. These
contaminants will be removed
The company says that the new line will from the compostable stream and
enable it to increase the tonnage of recovered for recycling using existing MRF
compostable waste it can process and the processing. Screening material will also
output material quality as the company help quickly identify specific service users
scales up its Vegware Compostables with high levels of contamination, so they
service launched in May 2020. can be targeted for greater customer
engagement.
Vegware makes plant-based and
compostable takeaway packaging,
including cups, cutlery and containers.
Food contamination is a major issue
hindering the recycling of conventional
packaging; in commercial composting
however, food residues #re processed to
compost and are fully acceptable.
During trials for the service, Paper Round The sorting line has been funded with
had identified that having a process for support from Vegware and WRAPʼs
checking the quality of compostable Small Scale Non-Household Municipal
material collected was essential for the Business Waste grant programme.
long-term success of the service - given WRAP administers the fund on behalf
the strict contamination criteria at of Defra.
composting sites.
