Company Overview The Process Food Grade Mixed Plastics Mixed Plastics Collection: operator of recycling collection services for 40 local authorities (servicing 2m households) and 65,000 commercial customers Recycling: >700K TPA of commingled recycling capacity with major presence in London, Midlands and North West Reprocessor: 50K TPA upgrading capabilities in plastics Post Industrial Film Recycling & Compounding Food grade HDPE Mixed plastics Introduction: Chris Taylor Biffa Polymers Redcar Biffa has a unique position as major collector, recycler and re-processor of recyclables….

Company Overview The Process Food Grade Mixed Plastics Mixed Plastics Welcome to Biffa Polymers  Number of employees 134 – all based here at Wilton, Redcar  Plastics recycling operations  Post Industrial Plastics Recycling & Compounding (two lines:12k tonnes per annum)  r.HDPE Food grade business (10k tonnes per annum)  New mixed plastics recycling facility (20k tonnes per annum)  Other services  Trading – Chemicals and plastics  WESpack – packaging compliance scheme HEALTH AND SAFETY IS AT THE CORE OF EVERYTHING WE DO The business – 2011

Company Overview The Process Food Grade Mixed Plastics Mixed Plastics  Company Overview The Process Food Grade Focus Post Industrial Plastics Recycling & Compounding 2 extrusion lines processing 12K tonnes per annum of different polymer sources into compounds  PP  PS  LDPE  HDPE

Company Overview The ProcessFood Grade Mixed Plastics Post Industrial Plastics Recycling & Compounding: The process Warehousing Input Material Inspection Hand Sort and Preparation Shredding Ferrous Removal - Blending - Extrusion and Filtration Pelletisation Intermediate Storage and Blending Lab Analysis (DSC – IZOD – MFI) Dispatch

Company Overview The Process Food Grade Mixed Plastics Mixed Plastics Producing c. 10 Kt of food approved rHDPE  Company Overview The Process Food Grade Focus Food grade rHDPE Our Food Grade rHDPE plant takes milk bottles from the recycling bin back to new milk bottles. 95% of product reused in UK for food consumer applications Plant accepts source segregated and MRF sorted bottles Taking post-consumer packaging back into food contact use in the UK

Company Overview The ProcessFood Grade Mixed Plastics Bottle to rHDPE: The process Outside & Main Process Hall Sort, Shred, Select and Wash - 12 Steps 1 Food Grade Hall Optically sort, Internally clean and Pelletise - 3 Steps 2 Laboratory Internal storage, 7 different lab instruction - 2 Steps 3  

Company Overview The Process Food Grade Mixed Plastics Mixed Plastics Mixed Plastics Plant  Poorly developed infrastructure for recycling non-bottle packaging in the UK  June 2009: WRAP launched Mixed Plastics Capital Competition  Biffa Polymers (then Greenstar WES) awarded £1.2m grant  Contract with WRAP signed January 2010  Construction completed February 2011  20,000 tonnes per annum input The UK’s first integrated facility for processing mixed plastics post-consumer packaging Manufactures 8 individually sorted high purity regrinds including:  PP  PE  PET  HIPS

Mixed Plastics Company Overview The ProcessFood Grade Keys advantages of the process Flexibility of inputs  Can deal with a wide range of contamination and polymers  Can take mixed plastic from any MRF and extract value Flexibility of outputs  Consistent high purity products suitable for use to make new consumer products  We make commodity products from the waste stream - a regrind which has international markets  Ability to tune products to customer requirements 

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Mixed Plastics Company Overview The ProcessFood Grade The film of the Biffa mixed plastics facility is available at: It is also available on You Tube (do a search on mixed plastics) Mixed Plastics - Video

Company Overview The Process Food Grade Mixed Plastics Mixed Plastics Contact Details Biffa Polymers Limited, WES Building, Plastics Road, Wilton International, Redcar, TS10 4RG Tel – – Website – Further Information Location - Based on the world famous Wilton International site – Redcar Cleveland