Sita UK to Build Plastic-to-Diesel Conversion Plant

SITA UK’s planning application to build a plastics-to-diesel facility in Avonmouth, Bristol, U.K. has been approved.

“This is a landmark decision which will put Avonmouth at the forefront of the very latest in resource management technology and bring new jobs to the area,” Gareth Phillips, SITA UK planning manager says.

“Our plans to construct a Bristol Resource Recovery Park that will extract energy and value from waste, and reduce the amount of rubbish that is sent to landfill, are now being advanced and will bring benefits to the environment and the local economy,” Gareth adds.

Sita UK also says a gasification facility will be built to handle 100,000 metric tons per year of residual waste and a recycling center is being built to manage 80,000 metric tons of other recyclables.

The plastics-to-diesel facility is being designed to produce about 4.2 million liters of specification diesel each year from 6,000 metric tons of end-of-life plastic, while the recycling facility should extract around 72,000 metric tons of recyclate, which would be sent for reprocessing.