Wyllie Recycling Ltd, a number one family-owned recycling companies in Scotland, has invested in three of TOMRA’s AUTOSORT™ optical sorters as a part of a £3 million improve on the firm’s blended containers MRF in Perth.
Designed particularly for native authority contracts, 20,000 tonnes of blended containers are processed yearly on the MRF, particularly aluminium and metal cans, plastic bottles and pots, tubs and trays.
The Perth website additionally recycles different plastics, wooden, cardboard and newsprint, and it incorporates Scotland’s largest safe drinks destruction facility.
Wyllie Recycling has contracts with seven native authorities in Scotland with a mixed inhabitants of over 1 million folks, representing roughly 20% of the Scottish market.
Every native authority’s materials is collected by the Wyllie Recycling’s personal fleet of walking-floor trailers earlier than being delivered to the MRF for processing utilizing three AUTOSORTTM models from TOMRA. These had been put in in January 2024 and are programmed to focus on six grades of polymers, together with HDPE (pure and jazz), PET (clear and jazz), and PP pots, tubs and trays. The sorting line operates at a charge of 5 tonnes per hour (TPH).
Previous to investing within the AUTOSORTTM models, Wyllie Recycling used magnets and eddy currents to type aluminium and metal cans, however the recovered polymers had been simply offered as blended plastic bottles (MPB).
John Gilmour, Business Supervisor at Wyllie Recycling, feedback: “After we started planning our MRF improve, we needed a confirmed expertise which might be dependable, inexpensive and, critically, may produce the fabric high quality necessities of our consumers. TOMRA’s AUTOSORTTM models ship on all of those counts. We’re attaining glorious tonnage throughput and excessive purity ranges, with out incurring any further labour prices. We’ve gone from promoting our recovered polymers as blended plastic bottles to producing six grades of exceptionally excessive purity food-grade merchandise, enabling us to fulfil our consumers’ demand for this materials.”
Steven Walsh, Space Gross sales Supervisor UK at TOMRA Recycling Sorting, provides: “Wyllie Recycling provides a singular service resolution for blended containers from native authorities and it’s nice to see the outcomes that our expertise is attaining on this explicit software. Our partnership with Wyllie Recycling was constructed over an extended growth part and I’m delighted not solely to see the undertaking come to fruition, however to see them make such a constructive influence on the Scottish home recycling market.”
The AUTOSORTTM is a multifunctional sorting system which makes use of superior sensors, together with NIR (close to infrared) and optionally MIR (mid infrared) spectroscopy, to exactly determine completely different polymer sorts. TOMRA says this enables for rather more correct sorting than conventional strategies which depend on color or form recognition alone. It’s able to processing massive volumes of fabric rapidly and its compact and ultra-flexible design imply it may well combine seamlessly into each new and present vegetation.
