The QMRE, Eagle Technology and G4 Group team celebrate QMRE’s successful accreditiion of REACH
DEFRA – Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has accredited QMRE with a REACH certification - Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals.
This is a vital document without which QMRE would be unable to commercially sell the oil created from turning plastic waste back into oil, which with further processing, turns the oil back into new and renewable plastic.
QMRE is introducing a network of VIXLA plastic Waste-2-Oil systems in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
A typical QMRE VÍXLA system will convert 1kg of plastic waste into 1 litre of QUEL (pyro-oil) - 85% of the total, with 12% non-condensable gas used to heat the process and 3% carbon ash which can be used in construction products. The system operates for 330 days of the year. When fully operational with 100 sites each with four VIXLAS, 550-600,000 tonnes of plastic waste will be recycled per annum, which is 10-12% of the 2021 plastic waste figures. (Source: ORA -Original Recycling Association, 2022).
The offtake will be sold to plastic cracking companies who will use it to make new and renewable plastic in lieu of using feedstocks from fossil fuels.