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Pioneer chooses Polycycle
 To fulfil its zero landfill target, leading electronics manufacturer, Pioneer, has invested over £20,000 in a Polycycle D150 to facilitate the recycling of waste EPS from its Castleford site in Yorkshire.
Mark Smith, managing director, Next-Tec Ltd, manufacturer and supplier of the Polycycle D150, comments: “I think Pioneer will be able to payback their investment in between 18 months to two years.
“They will achieve that because of their reduced waste management and landfill costs and they are selling the processed EPS to a recycler.”
The Polycycle uses ‘specific radiant wavelength’ technology that collapses the air cells in the EPS. It reduces the size of the EPS by 95% and creates in its place, hard, lightweight pebbles that can be conveniently transported to a recycler.
 An additional environmental benefit of the Polycycle is that the resulting pebble-like material can be fed directly into a recycling line – helping to reduce the carbon footprint required to recycle EPS.
Pioneer is currently processing around one tonne of used EPS a week and selling it direct to one of the UK’s leading EPS recyclers, Robust Ltd in Ebbw Vale. Robust recycles the EPS into a clean bead and then either uses it to make replacement hardwood decking or sells it as a recycled grade raw material that can be used to manufacture coat hangers, picture frames and disposable cameras.
Next-tec has been manufacturing the Polycycle range of machines for two years and has already sold 22 to the US, Finland, France and the UK.
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