Enval receives more fund for aluminum recovery facility
UK-based Enval, a spin-out of the University of Cambridge announced to have secured new funds from Kraft and Nestle, to help it commercialize the concept, which uses microwave-induced pyrolysis for the complete recycling of laminate waste, including the 100% recovery of its aluminum content.
Kraft and Nestle will provide the necessary fund to develop a new larger-scale plant to demonstrate the technology that has sound commercial potential for the recovery of aluminum from flexible pouches, said Enval.
The proposed material recycling facility will be fully operational by the second quarter of 2011, and it will reach its full potential by next 12 months, foodproductiondaily.com reported.
The feedstock will be brought initially from industrial waste generated throughout the packaging supply chain - from sources as varied as web laminate makers, packaging converters and even food manufacturers. The company will later look to source post-consumer waste, it said.
A study from WRAP revealed that the UK produces nearly 139,000t of packaging waste annually, with aluminum accounts almost 13.5t.
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