Solution: Products made from waste. Owner: ReFactory. Circular Strategy: Repurpose.
Description
ReFactory offer collection, treatment, and processing services for many waste types. They can create new products for the open market or can be utilised back into the original supply chain.
Refactory have set up cosmetic recycling boxes in Boots stores, funded PPE recycling points and partnered with No Trace to help clean fishing and angling waste along Brighton’s beach fronts.
Location
Hull, United Kingdom.
Potential circular economy impact
This solution is one of the UK’s only ‘non-recyclable’ plastic recycling processes. Manufacturing products from sea waste, cosmetics, flexibles, films, face masks and lateral flow test kits. This diverts the waste from ending up as landfill. Transforming it into a useful material that can replace wood, reducing the need to extract virgin material.
What’s involved?
People: Collection team; material sorting team; team to produce material into furniture, house wear, garden wear.
Resources: Courier service and collection trucks; factory space.
Technology: Machine to wash products; board mill.
Implementation: Collaborate with retailers to install bins; collect bins; organise the sorting and shredding; transform the shredded material into a board.