The Norwegian pyrolysis technology company Quantafuel has received planning permission for the chemical recycling plant it aims to build in the Northeast of England. According to a statement issued by Quantafuel on Monday, Sunderland City Council has given it the go-ahead for a new plastic-to-liquid (PtL) plant to be built on land at the city's port.
When it applied for planning permission in June of last year, Quantafuel said the plant would have a capacity of 80,000- 120,000 tonnes of plastic waste per year and be completed in 2024. According to the latest announcement, the plant is now scheduled to open in 2025 and is to have capacity for "around 100,000 tonnes of low-value plastic waste, such as soft food packaging and a variety of domestic and industrial plastics". The outputs of the recycling process are liquid which can be used as feedstocks for plastics production and a gas that can be used to fuel the plant. The facility in Sunderland is intended to be the first of several which Quantafuel plans to build in the UK....
