Svensk Plaståtervinning (Swedish Plastic Recycling) inaugurated the expansion of its waste plastics sorting facility in Motala, about 50 km west of Linköping, on Wednesday. The expanded plant, dubbed "Site Zero", is able to process up to 200,000 tonnes a year, or nearly twice as much as was possible when sorting operations began on the site in 2019. According to its own account the extended producer responsibility company has invested around SEK1bn (ca. €87m) into the project. Around 20 per cent of the project funding, or SEK207m, was provided by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) through the "Climate Leap" (Klimatklivet) investment programme.
According to Svensk Plaståtervinning, the fully automated Site Zero facility will produce twelve different plastic fractions, using a combination of near infrared (NIR) sensors, laser and camera technology. When the project was announced in 2021, Svensk Plaståtervinning said that the sorting equipment was being purchased from the German plant engineering company Sutco Recycling Technik, while the the near-infrared sensors were being purchased from Tomra....
