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law changes for plastic recycling

New life for old plastic

Your old guttering, car bumpers and plastic window frames can now be kept out of landfill thanks to a new quality protocol on turning non-packaging plastic into new raw materials.

Quality protocol for non-packaging plastics
The quality protocol for the manufacture of secondary raw materials from waste non-packaging plastics describes how you can produce a new material from waste plastic, other than waste plastic packaging.

You can follow the quality protocol to produce materials from waste plastics generated or recovered from:

• primary plastics production, eg process scrap
• construction and demolition sites, eg guttering and plastic window frames
• waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), eg casing
• end-of-life vehicles (ELV), eg bumpers and dashboards.

The quality protocol describes when used non-packaging material is no longer classed as a waste and can be used without waste management controls to produce new plastic products
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Business/090501_NPP_QP_final.pdf

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