Plastic paves the way

A plastic recycling company has supplied an environmental project with seats, fencing and ground reinforcement blocks all made from recycled plastic.
Intruplas have provided the 34-acre ABLE project at Wakefield with materials to lay 140 metres of pathways and 160 metres of road around the site. The company has also produced recycled plastic planks, which have been used for fencing and banks around a fish farm at the site.
Intruplas has developed technology that enables them to recycle contaminated plastic and mixed-waste. The materials are then used to produce high-quality building materials.
Howard Waghorn, Managing Director at Intruplas said: “ABLE illustrates sustainable development in action by taking waste materials and putting them to use, so I was delighted that our capabilities have contributed so positively.”
ABLE, known as ‘cardboard to caviar,’ was first launched in 1997 out of a partnership between the Green Business Network, Eastern Wakefield Primary Care Trust, and Turning Point. The project looked at recycling cardboard for horse bedding and is now rearing sturgeon for consumption and production of caviar. The fish are bred in tanks that are heated from a 20-acre willow and hazel coppice, which in turn is grown using composted sewage sludge.

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