Recycling company MBA Polymers UK has announced it is opening a third UK site, this time in Duddeston, Birmingham. The development of the Duddeston site is the latest step in the company’s efforts to create a nationwide network of facilities which can collect more plastic. MBA’s main source of input plastic waste is from Waste Electonics and Electrical Equipment (WEEE), Automotive Shedder Residue (ASR) and post-industrial production.
Even without the new facility, MBA Polymers UK already recycles more plastic per end-of-life vehicle than any other company in the world.
Adding the capacity of the new facility will enable it to recycle more plastics from the manufacture of new vehicles than any other global recycler. Its recycled plastic is the first to achieve the Carbon Trust’s Lower CO2 Certification with its products offering a reduction of between 75% and 86% compared to virgin equivalents, according to an independent Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
As part of its ambitious growth strategy, MBA Polymers has a target to produce 100,000 tonnes of recycled plastic by 2030, with Duddeston set to provide between 13,000 and 15,000 tonnes of this goal.
MBA Polymers UK – part of EMR, a global leader in sustainable materials – treats and recycles all of the material it processes within the UK, offering transparency and traceability to the companies it works with. It offers manufacturers- car makers, electronics firms and others - the opportunity to join a closed loop supply chain: their post-production waste is recycled by MBA Polymers, after which they can ‘buy back’ sustainable recycled plastics with very significant carbon savings.
“The location of this new site will also reduce the transportation required to achieve this,” said Paul Mayhew, general manager at MBA Polymers UK.
The new £400,000 site joins MBA Polymers UK’s original facility in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, and a separation line in Dover, which was acquired in 2019. The arrival of a third site will increase the efficiency of its processes and reduce the unnecessary, carbon intensive transportation of material.
“The arrival of our business – and its innovative recycling processes – to the heart of Birmingham is the next exciting chapter in the MBA Polymers UK story,” said Mayhew.
“Not only will this facility allow manufacturers to join a closed loop supply chain to recycle their post-production plastics, but Duddeston is the latest step in our wider strategic goal of creating a nationwide network of recycling facilities for both post-consumer and post-industrial plastics and – by partnering with our parent company, EMR –providing a ‘one-stop solution’ of a circular supply chain for both plastics and metals.”