What the waste plant would be
• Four times the size of ordinary plastic pyrolysis plants in Europe.
• At Morton Park near restaurants, a hotel, hospital and Supermarket and within 250m of housing.
• Planning to process plastic film, a material which hasn’t been proved to work at a commercial scale and is notoriously flammable and dirty.
• Requiring 10HGV movements per hour.
• Creating noise, odour and litter 24 hours a day.

What they don’t want you to know.
• Our research cannot find another pyrolysis site on this scale or on such a location in Europe. By a factor of four. There is a Dutch installation within a larger plant (or campus) called Chemelot.
• Pyrolysis -for film- has not been proved to work on a commercial scale, let alone in a plant of this magnitude.
• Processing film is the most difficult as the process will not work when there are different types or layers of polymer, when it is covered in ink, when it is covered in organic or inorganic matter, or if it is not completely dry.
• Film which arrives in any of these conditions cannot be processed without sorting, cleaning, drying all of which thus far have prevented commercial scale. That is to say beyond what is in effect a laboratory.
• To feed the plant, we estimate there would be 10 HGV’s movements per hour, every hour, and conceivably more with traffic disruption or at peak times.
• The experience of all similar and such installations involves a smoke stack, a flare and consequent particles and odours.
• A site processing 120,000 tonnes would be vast, five times the size of a site on mainland Europe.
• Post consumer mixed film is notoriously the hardest to recycle.
• Even with the most optimistic EPR payments (£400/tonne) this would be uneconomic.
• Experience of working with this material highlights the dangers of a. Billowing b. Fire risk - the material is highly flammable. c. Flies. d. Odour e. Noise from forklift and HGV’s.
• Fire risk is substantial in plastic recycling, even more so with film, a cursory search on Google reveals this.