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Polymer Recycling Apprenticeship
 PTL (Polymer Training Limited) is currently developing a Polymer Recycling Apprenticeship that will feature EPS as one of its key materials.
Managing Director of PTL, Mark Smith, says: “We worked closely with WAMITAB (Waste Management Industry Training and Advisory Board) to put together a training programme that includes polymer recycling and waste management.”
The apprenticeship is currently being considered for accreditation by Cogent. Once accepted and accredited by Cogent, PTL will be the first organisation to deliver the apprenticeship.
“We have companies eager and willing to deliver this programme with us. In the first year we hope to implement 12 apprenticeships, building up to 30 or more in the following year,” adds Smith.
 One of the unique facilities at PTL is the ability to demonstrate the recycling of plastics using EPS as the example.
PTL can take the used EPS product through five stages:
1 Raw material – chopped to appropriate size
2 Densified through a PolyCycleTM D150
3 Granulated
4 Extruded to pellet
5 Injection moulded to product
For more information visit www.ptlonline.org
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