We are proposing to build a £165m Plastic Park within Protos, on land to the north and south of Grinsome Road. Our project team will be on hand to answer questions about the proposals.

Two facilities at the Plastic Park have already received planning consent:

• A waste plastic to hydrogen facility which will take end of life plastic and use it to generate hydrogen for use as a clean fuel in cars, buses and HGVs, helping to improve local air quality.
• A Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) recycling facility which will take food and beverage packaging, such as plastic bottles, and recycle them for use in making new packaging products.

We are proposing to develop:

• A Materials Recycling Facility (MRF): which will separate out up to 75,000 tonnes of dry mixed recyclable materials (such as glass, paper, cans and card) into different waste streams and sent for recycling.
• Plastics Recycling Facility One (PRF1): plastic from the MRF and mixed plastics arriving pre-sorted to the site will be separated into different plastic types. The separated plastic will either go to PRF2 or the PET recycling plant already consented at Protos. PRF1 will treat up to 200,000 tonnes of plastic.
• Plastics Recycling Facility Two (PRF2): up to 90,000 tonnes of pre-sorted plastic from PRF1 which will be washed and processed into flaked plastic which can be used to make new plastic products, such as food packaging or drinks bottles.
• Polymer Laminate Recycling Facility: up to 2,500 tonnes of plastic (such as crisp packets and baby food pouches) will be heated, the plastic will break down into an oil for reuse in manufacturing new products with the aluminum recovered for recycling.
• Hydrogen refuelling station: taking hydrogen from the consented plastic to hydrogen facility to supply up to 1000kg of hydrogen per day to vehicles, sufficient to fuel approximately 20 HGVs from outside Protos and a similar number of internal HGV movements that will be servicing operations within Protos.