ECO Plastics host Chamber’s North Lincolnshire Area Council meeting

Jo Richardson (right) shows the Chamber's North Lincolnshire Council Area Chairman Paul Gouland some of the firm's recycled plastic materials.

THE Chamber’s North Lincolnshire Area Council meeting was hosted by ECO Plastics Ltd, at Hemswell Business Park, Hemswell.

The plastic bottle recycling firm’s financial controller, Jo Richardson, told the meeting the firm was founded in 2000 and now processes 150,000 tonnes of plastics a year.

The plant sorts post-consumer plastic bottles and produces food grade recycled plastic materials which are then sent to another company which turns the recycled materials into new plastic bottles.

Turnover is now on its way to £60-million per annum with the plant employing more than 200 staff on a shift system.

Around 95 per cent of the material they process is sourced from the UK. There are two lines in the wash plant, capable of washing 70,000 tonnes of plastics per annum.

The material then goes into an extrusion plant which melts the plastic and makes it into thermoforming sheet and strapping, and pellets which are made into Coca-Cola bottles. Every Coca-Cola bottle in the UK is made using ECO Plastics products.

However, as Jo explained. ECO Plastics don’t make the bottles themselves – the plastic pellet products are sent to another site where they are “blown” into new Coca-Cola bottles.

Jo said: “ECO Plastics is the world’s most technically advanced plastics sorting plant, is world class in the quality of its products and was appointed by Coca-Cola as an Education Centre”.