New Plastic Recycling Plant To Come Up in Portlaoise

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): The Laois City Council announced that it has granted conditional planning permission to Integrated Plastic Manufacturing Ltd. for the first phase of the proposed €20m plastics recycling facility in Portlaoise, subject to certain conditions. The facility, the first bottle-to-bottle plastics recycling facility in Ireland, is expected to be up and running by the end of this year.

According to the company, it had applied for planning permission in December 2020. The 6,000 square metre facility will be capable to process up to 35,000 tonnes of waste plastic bottles and aluminum cans. It will be located at the National Enterprise Park near to Clonminam Industrial Estate. The initial phase of the project is expected to create around 40 jobs.

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The site will house a waste water treatment plant, which will be used to clean the plastic bottles. The cleaned bottles will be shredded and transported to plastic extrusion plants. The contaminated cans will be separated from clean ones using magnets. These cans will be compacted before exported for smelting.

As per estimates, Ireland exports around 20,000 tonnes of plastic bottles for processing. The new plant would eliminate the need for these exports.