The UK horticultural industry stands to get greener yet thanks a new agricultural-waste wash plant in Wales.

Bpi.recycled Products has commissioned the facility at its factory in Rhymney, south Wales.

The new plant will stop the need for the UK’s plastic waste from horticulture to be exported to Vietnam and Malaysia or end up in UK landfill dumps or illegally burned.

Bpi is investing £4.5 million in the facility which becomes the largest wash plant of its kind in the UK and and will enable an additional 25,000 tonnes of waste horticultural films and used silage balewrap to be recycled each year. This waste will be used to create new products such as refuse sacks, outdoor furniture and building films.

The Rhymney plant will have low energy, high output motors, energy-saving lighting and rainwater harvesting to replace the water lost each day.

Gerry McGarry, business director at Bpi.recycled products said: “At bpi.recycled products, we’re committed to facilitating more efficient, more sustainable means of UK-based recycling as well as to providing closed loop solutions wherever possible. The new plant at Rhymney will help to increase our already extensive recycling capabilities, bringing major benefits not only to our business, but also to UK agricultural recycling and to the environment as a whole.”

Bpi.recycled products is a sister business of Bpi.visqueen, which makes horticultural films.

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