Green light for UK’s first plastic recycling park

Developer Peel L&P Environmental is pressing ahead with plans to build the UK’s first plastic recycling park in Cheshire.The £165m park will be developed at Protos and extends beyond already consented plans for a plastic to hydrogen plant also to be built at the site.Peel’s strategic energy and resource hub near Ellesmere Port will feature innovative processing and treatment technologies to make the most of up to 367,500 tonnes of mixed recyclables and plastic every year.Peel NRE now plans to work with potential operators to bring forward construction on site.Richard Barker, development director at Peel NRE, part of Peel L&P, said: “It’s great to get unanimous backing for the Plastic Park – a UK first that will underpin the circular economy in the North West.“It’s imperative we deliver creative solutions to the UK’s plastic problem. This project clusters recycling technologies in one place so that we can make the most of a whole range of plastic materials arriving on site, avoiding the need to ship them to different facilities around the region.