Syklo wants to recycle plastic waste currently sent to incineration: "Redirecting 450,000 tons of plastic waste from incineration to recycling in Finland would save us"

(For customers.) Sleds, cans and garden furniture. Plastic casings for electronic devices. Pipe pieces and protective films from construction sites. Plastic burned in recycled fuel. Consumer plastic waste that ends up in waste-to-energy plants as mixed waste. Plastic debris from trade, businesses and industry. Rejects from plastic packaging sorting plants. In Finland, this type of plastic waste is currently mainly directed to energy recovery. The Syklo Oy team believes that all of this could be recycled instead of incinerating. “According to our calculations, approximately 450,000 tons of recyclable plastic are incinerated in Finland,” says Teemu Koskela, CEO of Syklo Oy. He believes that Syklo also has working technology that would make recycling successful. Quality for recycling Syklo is currently building a plastic recycling plant in Hyvinkää, which will be able to process 50,000 tons of plastic waste when it is completed next autumn. Syklo assembles the plant's four lines with the idea that the Scottish sorting technology based on density differences will succeed in producing high-quality recycled plastic granules from mixed waste plastics for the needs of the plastics industry. Photo: Elina Saarinen. In the sorting process, plastic waste is separated based on density. The process involves several water tanks in a row. Water separation, which is more accurate than traditional immersion-floating, can sort plastic materials very precisely based on their density differences. According to the plans, the plant will cope with plastic waste that is difficult for traditional sorting plants, such as black packaging and technical hard plastics....